Natalia Siluyanova

Holy Martyr Natalia Siluyanova (Natalia Tikhonovna Siluyanova), a priest's daughter, is one of the eleven Christian women shot in Karlag on 11 January 1942: Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Evdokia Nazina, Anna Borovskaya, Matrona Navolokina, Varvara Derevyagina, Anna Popova, Evdokia Guseva, Euphrosyne Denisova, Agrippina Kiseleva and Natalia Vasilyeva. The other nine came from peasant families.

Of Natalia Siluyanova the page says that she was sentenced to a camp because she "took part in a counter-⁠revolutionary group whose aim was to wreck the measures of Soviet power in the village, agitated against the elections to the Supreme Soviet and sang the counter-⁠revolutionary tsarist monarchist anthem". She entered Karlag in March 1941 and, as the report says, "in the camp did not work a single day, from religious conviction". With her the other ten women were arrested, among them Natalia Sundukova, a priest's daughter, born in 1887, earlier sentenced to five years on a charge of leading a cell of the True Orthodox Church. All were charged with sabotage and with propaganda against the authorities by means of religious prejudice, and at the interrogation, without admitting guilt, they said with one voice that they were believing Christians and did not go out to work because they held Soviet power to be that of the antichrist. They were shot on 11 January 1942, and the place of their burial is not known. Natalia is commemorated on 11 January, the day of her confession, in the new style, with the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church (a movable day) and, on 17 September, with the Synaxis of the Saints of the Voronezh Metropolis.