Elizabeth Sidorova

Holy Martyr Elizabeth Sidorova, born Elizabeth Ivanovna Sidorova, was born on 5 September 1875 in the village of Ivanovskoe in the Makaryev district of the Nizhny Novgorod province, today the Bor district, in a peasant family. She received martyrdom by shooting on 20 November 1937. She was numbered among the saints at the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in the year 2000.

On 13 September 1937 she was arrested as an active churchwoman and a participant in a counter-⁠revolutionary church and fascist organization, together with clergy and laity of the Lyskovo district, Gorky region. She was imprisoned at Gorky. She did not admit guilt and refused to give testimony about the other arrested. On 11 November of the same year the Special Troika of the NKVD of the Gorky region sentenced her to death. She was put to death on 20 November and buried in an unknown common grave.

She is commemorated on 20 November, on 12 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).