Anna Borovskaya

Holy Martyr Anna Borovskaya was shot on 11 January 1942 in the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan, together with ten other women: Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokia Nazina, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Popova, Evdokia Guseva, Euphrosyne Denisova, Agrippina Kiseleva and Natalia Vasilieva. They are commemorated on 11 January, on 7 February and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Lipetsk, on 23 September.

Natalia Ivanovna Sundukova was born in 1887 in a priest's family. In the thirties she was exiled to the city of Stalinabad, in Tajikistan, where she was arrested again and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The charge said that she "was the organiser and leader of a counter-⁠revolutionary cell of the church and monarchist organisation 'True Orthodox Church' in Stalinabad and carried on anti-⁠Soviet agitation". In her camp character report it is said: "has not worked a single day, categorically declaring that she will not work for the antichrists". In Karlag ten other women were arrested together with her. A group case was made, in which it was said that "from the moment of arrival in Karlag, with counter-⁠revolutionary aims, without any grounds, they systematically refused to work in the camp, showing counter-⁠revolutionary sabotage", and that they carried on anti-⁠Soviet propaganda among prisoners, using religious prejudices. At the interrogation they all with one voice named themselves believing Christians and confirmed that they did not go out to work because they consider the Soviet authorities antichristian and do not wish to work for them.

Natalia Tikhonovna Siluyanova, also a priest's daughter (the other nine women were from peasant families), was sentenced to the camp because she "took part in a counter-⁠revolutionary group aiming to thwart the authorities' measures in the village, agitated against the elections to the Supreme Soviet and sang the tsarist monarchist anthem". She entered Karlag in March 1941 and, as her character report says, "in the camp did not work a single day, out of religious conviction". The eleven women martyrs were shot in Karlag on 11 January 1942. The place of their burial is not known.