Evdokia Perevoznikova

Holy Venerable Martyr Evdokia Perevoznikova, a nun, in the world Evdokia Alexandrovna Perevoznikova, was born on 7 February 1880 in the village of Cherevkovo in the Solvychegodsk district of the Vologda province, in a peasant family. She received martyrdom by shooting on 27 August 1937, at Chimkent. She was numbered among the saints at the Council of Bishops in the year 2000.

The time of her tonsure is not known. Before the revolution she laboured in a monastery, then worked in a tailor's workshop. Mother Evdokia followed Metropolitan Cyril Smirnov of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, the Holy Hieromartyr, into exile, to the settlement of Yanykurgan in the South Kazakhstan region, where she was his cell attendant. On 13 July 1937 the nun was arrested at Chimkent, accused of belonging to a counter-⁠revolutionary organization. She did not admit guilt. On 23 August 1937 the Special Troika of the NKVD of the South Kazakhstan region sentenced her to the highest penalty, and on 27 August she was shot at Chimkent.

She is commemorated on 27 August and on 7 February in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (new style).