Demetrius Rusinov

Holy Hieromartyr Demetrius Rusinov, an archpriest, was born in 1871 in the village of Kurkino, in the Moscow district, in the family of the priest Vladimir Petrovich Rusinov, who was later awarded many church distinctions and raised to the rank of archpriest. He received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 21 November 1937, at Butovo, near Moscow. He is commemorated on 22 November, on 29 May, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo, and on 5 September, in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.

In 1893 he finished the seminary in Moscow. Nothing is known of the place of his service after ordination, but from the testimony of witnesses it appears that until 1924 he served at the church of the Three Hierarchs in the village of Kobyakovo, in the Ozery district of the Moscow region, and after its closing was moved to the church of the Transfiguration in the village of Boyarkino, in the same district. He was raised to the rank of archpriest. Father Demetrius was arrested on 28 October 1937, accused of counter-⁠revolutionary agitation, and imprisoned at Kolomna. The investigator told him that, according to his information, he carried on counter-⁠revolutionary agitation among the inhabitants of Kobyakovo and Boyarkino, and he answered that he did not admit guilt of counter-⁠revolutionary talk. On 19 November 1937 the NKVD troika sentenced him to death. Archpriest Demetrius Rusinov was shot on 21 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range.