John Moshkov

Holy Hieromartyr John Moshkov, a deacon, in the world John Ivanovich Moshkov, was born on 25 September 1885 in the village of Bogorodskoe in the Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod province, in the family of a village cobbler. He finished the village school. After 1917 he was psalmist at the church of Saint Nicholas in the village of Isady, today in the Lyskovo district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. On 15 September 1937 he was arrested on a charge of "anti-⁠Soviet activity". He came into the same file with the holy hieromartyrs the priest Alexei Molchanov and the deacon Benjamin Vladimirsky, with the martyr Elizabeth Sidorova and with a large group of clergy from the villages of the Lyskovo district. He was imprisoned in the jail of the city of Gorky. He did not admit guilt.

On 11 November 1937 the special troika attached to the UNKVD of the Gorky region sentenced him to death, with twenty other accused. The deacon John Moshkov was shot on 20 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave at the Bugrovskoe cemetery in Gorky. He was glorified among the saints by the jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Church in the year 2000.

The Church commemorates him on 20 November, the day of his death, in the new style, and on the movable days of the synaxis of the new martyrs and of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod.