Euthymius Grebenshchikov

Holy Martyr Euthymius Grebenshchikov was a lay Christian of Voronezh and received the crown of martyrdom by shooting on 2 August 1930, together with a group of clergy and laymen. The Russian Church honours him among the New Martyrs and Confessors.

At the beginning of 1930 the hieromonks George Pozharov and Cyril Vyaznikov, the priest George Nikitin, the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov were arrested. They did not admit guilt. On 14 July 1930 they were presented with the decree concluding the investigation, on 23 July the indictment was sent to the OGPU Collegium, and on 28 July the Collegium examined the case and sentenced the accused to death by shooting.

The feasts of Saint Seraphim of Sarov and of the Holy Prophet Elias had passed. On the evening of 2 August the sentence was announced to them, then they were put into a truck to be taken to the outskirts of Voronezh. At ten that evening, on the same day, Archimandrite Tikhon Kechkov of the Alexeyevsky Monastery, the hieromonks George Pozharov and Cyril Vyaznikov, the priests John Steblin-⁠Kamensky, Sergei Gortinsky, Feodor Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, George Nikitin and the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov were shot.

He is commemorated on 2 August and on 17 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Voronezh Metropolis, and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).