Constantine Mikhailovsky

Holy Hieromartyr Constantine Mikhailovsky, an archpriest, was born in 1874 in Mordovia. His full name was Constantine Mikhailovich Mikhailovsky. Resolving to follow the spiritual way, he finished the theological seminary and was ordained priest, and later raised to the rank of archpriest.

On 19 July 1937 he was tried and sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan, and then taken by stages to the settlement of Maiskoe in the Beskaragai district of the Pavlodar region. Like the holy hieromartyr John Malinovsky, the archpriest Constantine worked at the Maiskoe mine. On 25 November 1937 his exile was interrupted by an arrest, and his file was joined to the "Group case of Archimandrite Gregory (Rebeza) and others, Pavlodar, 1937". To all the charges of counter-⁠revolutionary activity in the settlement of Maiskoe Father Constantine answered: "During my exile I carried on no counter-⁠revolutionary work".

On 1 December 1937 the archpriest Constantine Mikhailovsky was tried by the troika of the UNKVD of the East Kazakhstan region and sentenced to death. At two o'clock in the night of 2 December he was shot. The place of his burial is not known.

He is commemorated on 2 December, the day of his death, and on 7 February, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, in the new style.