Peter Vyaznikov

Holy Martyr Peter Vyaznikov, a layman, was shot on 2 August 1930 near Voronezh, together with a group of clergy and laymen of the diocese. The page tells nothing of him beyond what belongs to this trial.

At the beginning of 1930 the hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cyril (Vyaznikov), the priest George Nikitin and the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov were arrested. None of them pleaded guilty to the charges. On 14 July 1930 they were handed the decree closing the investigation, and on 23 July the indictment was sent to the OGPU Collegium. On 28 July the Collegium considered the case and sentenced them to be shot.

After the feasts of St Seraphim of Sarov and of the Prophet Elijah, on the evening of 2 August the sentence was announced to them. They were put in a truck and taken to the outskirts of Voronezh. That same evening, at ten o'clock, Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov) of the Alekseevsky Monastery, the hieromonks George and Cyril, the priests John Steblin-⁠Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky and George Nikitin, and the laymen Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov were shot.

He is commemorated on 2 August, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 17 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of the Voronezh Metropolis, in the new style.