Nicholas Skvortsov

Saint Nicholas Skvortsov, hieromartyr, was a priest of the Russian Church, from the Moscow region, shot at the Butovo firing range on 27 September 1937. He was canonized by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000. He is commemorated in the Synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia and on 28 September.

He was born in 1875 (according to other sources, in 1878) in the village of Bunyakovo in the Bronnitsy district, in a priest's family. He finished the Moscow seminary in 1895. He was rector of the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Konobeevo, Bronnitsy district, from 1907 to 1911, then of the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lefortovo and a cleric, with the rank of archpriest, of the church of the icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign" in Perovo, until 1937. Until 29 August 1937 he lived on Lefortovsky Val.

In 1922 he was arrested by the Cheka for "spiritual teaching of children in church". In 1925 he was arrested by the Collegium of the OGPU without any charge being brought. After two months he was released. On 29 August 1937 he was arrested for "systematic counter-⁠revolutionary agitation". On 26 September the troika attached to the NKVD Directorate for the Moscow region sentenced him to death. On 27 September Archpriest Nicholas Skvortsov was shot at the Butovo firing range.