Evdokia Guseva

Holy Martyr Evdokia Guseva 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.

The holy martyrs shot on the same day were Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokia Nazina, Anna Borovskaya, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Popova, Euphrosyne Denisova, Agrippina Kiseleva and Natalia Vasilieva. From what is told it is known that Natalia Ivanovna Sundukova, a priest's daughter, born in 1887, 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; her camp report says that she did not work a single day, declaring that she would not work for antichrists.

Natalia Tikhonovna Siluyanova, also a priest's daughter, was sentenced for allegedly taking part in a counter-⁠revolutionary group, agitating against elections and singing the tsarist anthem; she arrived at Karlag in March 1941 and, according to the report, did not work a single day for religious convictions. The other nine women came from peasant families.

About Evdokia Guseva herself the source gives no details. The women were arrested in the camp, in a group case, accused that since arriving at Karlag they had systematically refused work, committing counter-⁠revolutionary sabotage, and that among the prisoners they had spread anti-⁠Soviet propaganda using religious prejudices. At the interrogation they all together called themselves believing Christians, did not admit guilt and said that they did not go to work because they considered Soviet power to be the antichrist's and did not wish to work for it. All eleven were shot on 11 January 1942, and the place of their burial is unknown.

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