Leonid Skvortsov

Holy Hieromartyr Leonid Skvortsov was a priest at the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Laishevo and was shot in October 1918.

When the White Czechs and the People's Army left Laishevo, Father Leonid went with them, but returned to his town after a few days. There he was denounced and arrested by the Cheka on 30 September. A witness testified that, while the People's Army was in the town, the priest had preached at the cathedral calling people to support it. On 7 October the district extraordinary commission decided to have him shot for "agitation from the pulpit against the authorities", for serving a molieben for the White Guards in the square, and for having been in the White Guard. The sentence was carried out on the morning of 8 October, together with four other residents of Laishevo and the village of Oshnyaki.

He is honoured in the Synaxis of the Saints of Kazan, on 4 October by the old calendar (17 October by the new).