Nicholas Tsikura

Holy Venerable Martyr Nicholas Tsikura was a steward of the bishop's house at Omsk, killed in the night of 6 February 1918, when the Bolsheviks came to arrest Archbishop Sylvester.

He was steward of the bishop's house under Archbishop Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk and Pavlodar and accompanied him on his journeys through Russia, enduring with the hierarch all the hardships of the post-⁠revolutionary ruin. On 4 February 1918 the procession of the cross of the parishes of all the churches of the city took place at Omsk, led by Archbishop Sylvester. Nicholas Tsikura was killed in the night of 6 February, when godless men came to arrest the archbishop.

He is remembered on 18 February, on 26 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Omsk Metropolis, and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.