Holy Martyr Joseph Arkharov

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys.

“Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

Publications were prepared by Kirill Kharatyan (included by the Russian authorities in the register of foreign agents).

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Joseph Arkharov is the son of a leather breeder from the village of Rogachev Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow province. Until 1930, he worked at a leather factory. In the same year he was ordained a priest. He was already 56 years old.

In 1933 he was arrested and the Vereysk People's Court was convicted of 2 years in prison under Art. 74 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (hooliganism).

January 1, 1936 was again arrested; On January 2 of the same year, the Troika at the NKVD of the USSR was sentenced to 3 years in forced labor camps.

March 8, 1936 was imprisoned in the Karaganda ITL. During the stay in the camp on about. Joseph came the following content:

“Z/K Archars, a b/priest in the evening in the hut, when Romanov began to ask a book about reading, he advised him to better read the Gospel or Psalter, it is useless to read other books. The s/to Arkharov told publicly that, allegedly, all the churches began to restore and worship would begin. The s/to Arkharov always seeks to sing something divine. ”

On September 3, 1937 he was again arrested in Karlag. From the denunciation: “Z/to Arkharov loves the church very much. In the camp, he really stores the church cassock, at one time kept it in a monetary cabinet. When one day they asked her for the scene to play the role of the priest, he replied: "I will not let me mock the religion."

“I have never been pleased with a single moment of Soviet power. Repeatedly in conversations, Arkharov said that he recognizes Soviet power as God's punishment sent to earth to people, so you have to endure. ”

On September 14, 1937, the NKVD in the Karaganda region was convicted under Art. 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR with the charge of counter-revolutionary agitation, the spread of provocative rumors: “The prisoner of the Arkharov Joseph Ivanovich, being convicted of the focus and serving the punishment in the Karlog of the NKVD at the Volkovsky department, systematically carried out to the prisoners, aimed at discrediting party policy and the party’s discrediting and Crazy, expressing dissatisfaction with the existing system, spreading provocative rumors about the imminent war and the death of sowing. Interrogated in the case, as the accused, did not find himself guilty, but was completely exposed to the testimony of testimony ”and sentenced to death.

Shot on September 21, 1937. Buried in an unknown grave.