Anna Ezhova

Holy Venerable Martyr Anna Ezhova, a nun (in the world Anna Ivanovna Ezhova), was born in 1885 in the Semenov district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. She was shot on 21 August 1937. She was glorified by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in the year 2000.

After her monastic tonsure she lived in the settlement of Gnilitsy, in the Avtozavod district, on the outskirts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Together with Orthodox clergy and laity, the nun was arrested at the end of July or the beginning of August 1937, as a participant in a counter-⁠revolutionary church group supposedly active in the Avtozavod district. She did not admit guilt and refused to give testimony against the others arrested in the case. On 21 August 1937 the nun Anna Ezhova was shot. She was later rehabilitated. She is commemorated on 29 August, on 7 February and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, on 12 September.