Vinogradov, Alexey Petrovich

Born December 28, 1871 in Moscow in the family of the official of the Most Holy Synod Peter Vinogradov (later became a priest ).

In 1897, he graduated from a seminary course, then worked as a teacher for three years, and in 1900 he was ordained priest. In 1928, Father Alexy was appointed Provost , and in 1932 he was elevated to the rank of archpriest .

In 1937, he served in the church in the village of Novotroitsky, Vysokovsky District, Kalinin Oblast (now Staritsky District, Tver Oblast ). On November 27, Father Alexy was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities among the population and was questioned the next day, but did not admit the charges. The investigator questioned three false witnesses: a priest and two peasants, who gave the necessary evidence to the investigation. On December 5, Alexey Petrovich Vinogradov was sentenced to a tentative prison in a forced labor camp. Before being sent to the camp, he was in prison in the town of Rzhev ^[1] .

On February 9, 1938, one of the prisoners in Rzhev prison convicted of murder sent a statement to the representative of the NKVD , in which he wrote that on December 22, 1937 he was transferred to cell number 9, where there were fifty-seven people convicted under Article 58 of the Criminal Code RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda), and among them priest Alexy Vinogradov, who, despite being convicted under Article 58, “has so far been opposed to Soviet power, agitates for the fact that the time will come, the NKVD workers headed with Commissar Ezhov I will t responsible for us ... The Stalin constitution is only as a written document, and nobody benefits from it ” ^[2] .

A new investigation began, and the next day, the investigator presented a new conviction to the already convicted priest of counterrevolutionary propaganda among the prisoners of Rzhev prison. Vinogradov did not plead guilty, but the killer - the author of the statement and the young man, a graduate of the orphanage, who was in prison after leaving the orphanage, slandered the priest in his testimony to the investigator. February 10, 1938 the investigation was completed. On March 25, a troop of the NKVD sentenced father Alexy to execution ^[1] .

Archpriest Alexy Vinogradov was shot on March 28, 1938 and was buried in a common unknown grave.

• Igumen Damaskin (Orlovsky). March // Lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Twentieth Century. - Tver, 2006.