Anna Popova

Holy Martyr Anna Popova was shot on 11 January 1942 in the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan, together with ten other women: Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokia Nazina, Anna Borovskaya, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, 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 Ryazan, on 23 June.

The eleven women were arrested in the camp in a group case: it was said that from the moment of arrival in Karlag they systematically refused to work in the camp and carried on anti-⁠Soviet propaganda among the prisoners. At the interrogation they all with one voice named themselves believing Christians and said that they did not go out to work because they considered the Soviet authorities antichristian and did not wish to work for them. Of them, Natalia Sundukova and Natalia Siluyanova were priests' daughters, and the other nine came from peasant families. They were shot in Karlag on 11 January 1942, and the place of their burial is not known.