Peter Kuznetsov of Pavlovo

Holy Hieromartyr Peter Kuznetsov of Pavlovo, a priest, was born on 28 June 1869 in the Blagoveshchensky plant in the Ufa district, in the family of the peasant Potapy Kuznetsov. In 1888 he finished the Blagoveshchensk teachers' seminary and was named teacher of the Law of God and of singing at the zemstvo school in Sepychevo, Okhansk district, Perm province. In 1900 he was received into the clerical estate and ordained deacon for the Presentation church in Sepychevo, and in 1902 he was moved to the Nativity of Christ church of the Bisert plant, where he was also religion teacher at the parish school. In 1906 he was ordained priest, on 6 December, for the Edinoverie Ascension church in the Okhansk district and sent to serve at the church of Saints Stephen and Sergius in the village of Rogali. In 1911 he was moved to the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of the Pavlovsky plant, Okhansk district, and named religion teacher at the girls' schools of Pavlovsky and Oduy. In 1913 he was named chairman of the parish trusteeship of Pavlovsky and head and religion teacher of the church school of Nizhnyaya Tavitsa, and in 1914 member of the deanery council.

The priest Peter Kuznetsov was shot by the atheist Bolsheviks in February 1919 at the station of Vereshchagino, in Perm province. He is commemorated on 20 June, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 14 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Perm Metropolis, in the new style.