Podyakov, Nikolai Nikolaevich

Nikolai Nikolaevich Poddyakov ^[1] ( , - , ) - archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church , holy martyr .

Memory September 24 , in the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia , in the Cathedral of Vyatka Saints and in the Cathedral of Vyatka New Martyrs and Confessors .

Archpriest Nikolai Nikolaevich Poddyakov was born in 1867 in the family of a priest of the Theotokos-Nativity Church s. Podosinovets Nikolsky district of the Vologda province. After graduating from the Nicholas Theological College and the Vologda Theological Seminary in 1889, he was ordained a priest to the Bogoroditsky church with. Podosinovets. In his ministry in the Field of Christ, Father Nicholas carried many church-public obediences. He was the law teacher of the Podosinovsky ministerial two-year and higher primary four-year schools, deputy of school and diocesan congresses, dean of the 5th district of the Nikolsky district of the Vologda diocese, founder and head of the Ananyinsky and St. George's Melminogorsk church parishes. The works of Father Nicholas on the organization of the church and public life of his deanery were highly appreciated. Parishioners deeply respected and honored their active pastor. But in 1917, everything changed. People came to power who hate the Church of Christ and its ministers. Soon Podosinovets turned out to be a front-line village. Having no other strength to stop the White Army’s advance, the Reds unleashed a policy of outright terror, trying to frighten the local population with unprecedented cruelty. On September 10, 1918, at eleven o'clock in the morning, the Chekists broke into the house of Father Nikolai. They presented an arrest warrant for Fr. Nicholas, who at that time was rising from the basement to the house. So that the future prisoner could not escape, one of the soldiers shot about. Nikolay. The soldiers laid the wounded man on a cloth stretcher and carried him out of the house. At the same time, they had to disassemble a part of the window, since the stretcher with the wounded did not pass through the door. Father Nicholas was brought to a pre-dug pit and forced to kneel. He was accused of counter-revolutionary actions in refusing to help the Red Army with food. In response, the priest called everyone to Christian love and asked all parishioners for forgiveness. The sentence was carried out. Together with about. Nicholas was shot and his brother priest Victor Usov . The body of the murdered father of Nicholas was transferred to the house, where he was dressed in priestly vestments. The funeral service was performed by priest Zosima Trubachev . He was buried at the altar of the Mother of God Church in the village of Podosinovets . A memorial cross has now been erected at the burial site, and Archpriest Nikolai Poddyakov himself is now glorified in the face of saints ^[2] .