George Nikitin

Holy Hieromartyr George Nikitin, a priest, received the crown of martyrdom on 2 August 1930, shot on the outskirts of Voronezh, together with nine other confessors.

At the beginning of 1930 clergy and laity were arrested at Voronezh: the priests George Nikitin and Alexander Arkhangelsky, the hieromonks George Pozharov and Cyril Vyaznikov, the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov and others. All rejected the charges brought against them. On 14 July 1930 the resolution on the end of the investigation was presented to them, on 23 July the indictment was sent to the OGPU Collegium, and on 28 July the Collegium examined the file and sentenced the accused to death by shooting.

The feasts of Venerable Seraphim of Sarov and of the Prophet Elijah had passed. On the evening of 2 August the condemned were read the sentence, then put in a truck to be taken to the surroundings of Voronezh. At ten o'clock that evening were shot Archimandrite Tikhon Krechkov of the Alexeevsky Monastery, the hieromonks George Pozharov and Cyril Vyaznikov, the priests John Steblin-⁠Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky and George Nikitin and the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov. About George Nikitin in particular the page says nothing else. He is commemorated on 2 August and, according to the Azbyka page, on 17 September.