Peter Troitsky

Saint Peter Vasilyevich Troitsky, martyr, was a psalm-⁠reader in Russia and died in a camp on 13 January 1938, during the Soviet persecution. He was numbered among the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000. He is commemorated on 31 December by the old calendar, which is 13 January by the new.

He was born on 29 January (10 February) 1889 in the village of Maksheyevo, Kolomna district, Moscow governorate, into the family of the deacon Vasily Troitsky. He finished the theological school and entered the Moscow seminary, where he studied one year, for family reasons. From 1915 he served as psalm-⁠reader at the church of his village.

On 3 November 1937 he was arrested on a charge of anti-⁠Soviet agitation among the villagers. On 17 November 1937 an NKVD troika sentenced him to eight years in a labour camp. He died on 13 January 1938 and was buried in an unknown grave not far from the town of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia.