Peter Ievlev

Holy Hieromartyr Peter Ievlev (Pyotr Ivanovich Ievlev), a priest, was born in 1875. He attended the town school in Yekaterinburg, married Elizaveta Evgenievna, formerly a teacher at the girls' gymnasium, and they had five children. In 1896 he was ordained deacon. Having a gift for practical affairs, in October 1901 he was invited to be steward of the diocesan girls' school in Yekaterinburg, the largest and best-⁠ordered in the diocese, and then also of the bishop's house. On 28 October 1905 he was named deacon at the Cathedral of Saint Catherine, remaining steward of the bishop's house. In September 1907 he was ordained priest for the Cross church of the bishop's house, and in March 1908 he was moved to the Saviour-⁠Transfiguration cathedral of the Nevyansk plant.

In mid-⁠June 1918 an uprising against the Bolsheviks rose at Nevyansk, one of the largest in the Urals, organized by the motor mechanics of the 4th rear motor workshop, evacuated there after the peace of Brest. On 12 June they arrested the executive committee of the local soviet, killed two of its members and set up a staff of their own. Residents of nearby villages and plants joined them. Regular units of the Red Army were sent against the insurgents, and the uprising was soon suppressed. At Nevyansk and its surroundings terror began. In the course of the punitive operation the Bolsheviks shot over three hundred people. The clergy of the district were accused of unleashing the anti-⁠Bolshevik action, so the clergy were killed first. Then the Saviour-⁠Transfiguration cathedral, in which Father Peter Ievlev served, was plundered and desecrated.

The priest Peter was shot in his house in Nevyansk on 8 September 1918 (in one place the page gives the date of 26 August 1918). He was numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by decision of the Holy Synod of 17 July 2002. He is commemorated on 8 September, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 11 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of Yekaterinburg, in the new style.