Euphrosyne Denisova

Holy Martyr Euphrosyne Denisova received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 11 January 1942, in the Karlag camp in Kazakhstan, together with ten other believing women. The Russian Church honours her among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the twentieth century.

Shot with her were Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokia Nazina, Anna Borovskaya, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Popova, Evdokia Guseva, Agrippina Kiseleva and Natalia Vasilieva. Natalia Ivanovna Sundukova, born in 1887 in a priest's family, had been exiled in the 1930s to Stalinabad and there sentenced again to five years, as organizer of a cell of the True Orthodox Church. Natalia Tikhonovna Siluyanova, also a priest's daughter, had been sentenced for agitating against elections and singing the tsarist anthem. The other nine women came from peasant families; of Euphrosyne herself the source gives no details.

In the camp, in a group case, they were accused that since arriving at Karlag they had systematically refused work and conducted anti-⁠Soviet propaganda on the strength of religious prejudices. At the interrogation they all called themselves believing Christians, confirmed that they did not go to work because they regarded Soviet power as the antichrist's, and did not admit guilt. All eleven were shot on 11 January 1942, in an unknown place of burial.

She is commemorated on 11 January, on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style), and on 23 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Lipetsk.