After carefully reading Stepan’s responses, the investigator summoned him again two days later and asked: “Why do you say that Russia no longer exists?” “Russia existed when the Orthodox were in power. Now it is Babylon, a city of lawlessness,” Stepan replied.
Archpriest Peter Guryanov
When she saw a priest, something stirred in her heart and she began to doubt that this was the right thing to do. She bought the drugs, but after staying awake all night, she chose to live.
Amid the torture, the priest cried out to the Orthodox believers: “Do not renounce God!”
“Where are you going?! Keep your baby!” I exclaimed, and I led her away from there sobbing and weeping.
Igumen Damaskin (Orlovsky)
After the church was closed in 1937, Olga Vasilyevna was arrested on September 4, 1937, along with the priests, the psalmist, and the church warden. She was taken to Taganka Prison in Moscow and interrogated the same day.
