Nina Shuvalova

Holy Venerable Martyr Nina Shuvalova was a nun and was shot in the night of 19 to 20 November 1937, in the case of the hieromonk Gabriel (Vladimirov).

At birth she was named Neonilla Andreevna Shuvalova and was born on 28 October 1866 in the village of Balka in the Baranovka district of the Lower Volga Territory, in a peasant family. She was tonsured a nun with the name Nina and until 1917 struggled in a monastery; after its abolition she lived in the town of Chimkent, in the South Kazakhstan region. On 10 October 1937 the nun Nina was arrested and tried in the "case of the hieromonk Gabriel (Vladimirov)", charged, like the others in the case, with being a member of a counter-⁠revolutionary organisation. She was sentenced to death and shot in the night of 19 to 20 November. The place of her burial is unknown. In the year 2000 the Jubilee Council of Bishops numbered her among the saints.

She is remembered on 19 November and on 7 February (a movable day) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors, in the new style.