Tatiana Byakireva

Holy Confessor Tatiana Byakireva was born in 1890 and is one of the believers of the Ryazan diocese who suffered for the faith in 1937. Fekla Makusheva, born in 1901, was tried together with her.

On 6 November 1937 the two women were arrested with twenty-⁠five other people, twenty-⁠seven in all. They were held first in the prison of Kasimov, and then all the accused in the case were taken to Ryazan for sentencing and execution. Fekla and Tatiana appeared in a group case called "The Case of a Counter-⁠Revolutionary Insurgent Organization of Churchmen, Ryazan Region, Belkovo (Kasimov) District, 1937".

On 6 December 1937 the troika attached to the regional NKVD administration charged them with being active participants in a counter-⁠revolutionary insurgent and terrorist organization, with spreading defeatist agitation among the people and with voicing terrorist intentions. Fekla Makusheva and Tatiana Byakireva, like Anna Ivashkina and Evdokia Martishkina, were sentenced to ten years in a labour camp, while the other twenty-⁠three accused in the same case were shot.

Saint Tatiana is commemorated on 23 December, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 23 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ryazan, all in the new style.