Nicholas Glagolevsky

Saint Nicholas Glagolevsky was an archpriest in the Moscow region and was shot at the Butovo range on 16 November 1937.

He was born in 1875 in the village of Shchitnikovo in the Razin volost of the Moscow district (today the Vostochny district of Moscow), in the family of the rector of the church of Saint Demetrius, Father Hippolytus Glagolevsky. He finished the seminary in 1900 and was for three years a teacher at the parish school of Ustyanovo. In 1903 he was ordained deacon and sent to the church of Saints Zosimas and Sabbatius at Golyanovo, where his brother, Father Alexis Glagolevsky, served; a year later he was ordained priest. In 1904 he was sent to the church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the village of Rudnya, where he served until 1930 and was raised to the rank of archpriest. In this time three children were born.

Under Soviet rule the family was burdened with a heavy tax and sold almost all its furniture, and some things were confiscated. On 30 January 1930 he was arrested and imprisoned at Orekhovo-⁠Zuevo, charged with counter-⁠revolutionary activity and anti-⁠Soviet agitation, and sentenced to three years in a camp and the confiscation of all his property. He was sent to a camp in the North. After serving his term he returned and served at the church of Adrian and Natalia in the village of Yekimanskoye, until 1937. On 2 October 1937 he came to Rudnya to visit old acquaintances, was arrested and charged with counter-⁠revolutionary activity. On 15 November an NKVD troika sentenced him to death, and on 16 November he was shot at Butovo and buried in an unknown place. On 19 March 1960 the Presidium of the Moscow regional court fully rehabilitated him.