Vladimir Sergeev

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Sergeev was a priest at the church of Saint Nicholas in Dalmatovo, Perm province, and was tortured and killed by the Bolsheviks on 27 June (10 July) 1918, together with the priest Alexander Sidorov.

He was born on 3 July 1868 in Dalmatovo, in the family of the peasant Michael Sergeev. In 1890 he finished the Perm seminary and was appointed supervisor at the theological school of Ekaterinburg. In 1891 he was ordained priest for the church of Saint Nicholas at Dalmatovo, where nearly eight thousand people then lived. From 1899 he taught the Law of God at the two-⁠class monastery school, and from 1909 at the four-⁠class town school. He was a zealous pastor and was rewarded several times by the diocesan authorities.

Alexander Sidorov, born on 30 August 1868 at the Nizhny Ufaley works, in the family of the peasant Basil Sidorov, had finished six classes of gymnasium and in 1890 became a teacher. In 1895 he was moved from the peasant estate into the clerical one, on 10 December 1895 he was ordained deacon for the church of the Ascension in the village of Kuznetskoe, and on 22 July 1897 priest for the church of Saint Nicholas at Dalmatovo.

The two priests were tortured and killed by the godless Bolsheviks on 27 June (10 July) 1918, at the station of Dalmatovo. Father Alexander the Red executioners lifted onto bayonets and stuffed his mouth with earth.

The saint is commemorated on 10 July and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.