Paul Borisoglebsky

Holy Hieromartyr Paul Borisoglebsky, a priest, was born in Vasilsursk, in Nizhny Novgorod province, as Pavel Vasilievich Borisoglebsky. He served in the village of Plotinskoe in the Lyskovo district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. He was arrested on 24 July 1937 and accused of having made anti-⁠Soviet remarks in his exile of 1930-1931. He did not admit guilt.

On 11 November 1937 he was sentenced to death by the NKVD troika and shot. The Azbyka page mentions him together with the priest Alexander Krylov, born in 1879 in the village of Vargany, a priest in Lyapuny, arrested on 17 September 1937 on testimony extracted under torture, accused of taking part in the burning of twenty houses, a stack of straw, a collective-⁠farm yard and a mill, and sentenced to death on the same date.

Saint Paul is commemorated on 20 November, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 12 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Nizhny Novgorod, in the new style.