Nicholas Troitsky

Holy Hieromartyr Nicholas Troitsky was a priest in the village of Revezen, in the Nizhny Novgorod province, and was shot in November 1937, together with three other priests of the Perevoz district.

In the night of 20 to 21 October 1937 the priests of the Perevoz district of the Nizhny Novgorod region were arrested. The inquiry lasted less than a month, and on 11 November all were sentenced to death and shot. The Church commemorates four of them: Alexander Ilyinsky, Alexander Kurmyshsky, Paulinus Staropolev and Nicholas Troitsky.

The priest Alexander Ivanovich Ilyinsky was born in 1899 in the village of Pustyn, in the Nizhny Novgorod province, and served in the village of Bolshiye Kemary. The priest Alexander Mikhailovich Kurmyshsky was born in 1879 at Simbirsk, finished the seminary and served at the church of the village of Tanaykovo. The priest Paulinus Ivanovich Staropolev was born in 1865 in the village of Bykovy Gory, Spassk district, finished the seminary and served in the village of Dubskoye. The priest Nicholas Alexeevich Troitsky was born in 1885 in the village of Lobaski, Ichalki district, in Mordovia, and served in the village of Revezen. All were charged with being leaders of an "anti-⁠Soviet group" and with having shown dissatisfaction with Soviet power. At the interrogations the martyrs bore themselves with dignity and rejected all the accusations.

Nicholas Troitsky is remembered on 20 November and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.