Tatiana Egorova

Saint Tatiana Egorova, martyr, was a peasant woman of the Kasimov district, Ryazan governorate, shot for her faith in 1937. She was canonized as a martyr in the year 2000 by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia. She is commemorated on 10 (23) December, in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ryazan.

She was born on 15 January 1879 in the village of Giblitsy, Kasimov district, Ryazan governorate, into a poor peasant family. Before the revolution she traded in cloth together with her parents and her husband, Basil Anisimovich. In 1932, for failure to meet the firm assignment of the food tax, the whole Egorov household was confiscated and they were expelled from the collective farm. As a result her husband and their two sons, John and Theodore, went away for many years to earn a living in Moscow.

She was arrested on 6 November 1937. The village council and the indictment in the investigation file described her as an active churchwoman. In the interrogations the investigators tried in vain to convince her that she was an active member of a counter-⁠revolutionary insurgent organization, relying, as always, on irrefutable proofs and facts and, as always, producing none of them. Her last answer at the interrogation was: “Again I repeat that I was not in the organization and did not conduct counter-⁠revolutionary agitation among the people, nor did I spread provocative rumours about war and the downfall of Soviet power. Jesus suffered, and I too will suffer and endure, I am ready for everything.” She refused to sign.

On 6 December 1937 the troika of the NKVD for the Ryazan region sentenced her to death by shooting, under article 58, points 10-11. The sources do not give the exact day of her death, only the year 1937.