Rev. Martyr Efimiy Korotkov

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.

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Icon Cathedral of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian

Vladimir Korotkov is a peasant son from the Osinsky district of the Perm province. On December 8, 1903, 21-year-old Vladimir Korotkov entered a novice in the Belogorsky Nikolsky Monastery with his brother Alexei. On November 10, 1905, he was enrolled in the fraternity of the monastery.

On December 5, 1905, he was tonsured in Raisofor, on October 14, 1912 he was tonsured in a mantle.

On March 29, 1913 he was ordained a hierodeacon, sent to serve on the courtyard of the Belogorsk monastery in Perm.

On February 21, 1918, the armed Bolsheviks broke into the monastery courtyard. They burst into the cells with searches, turned everything over and took the things that they liked. Among the people began a murmur. Then the robbers began arrests; Among the others, Alexei Korotkov was arrested. The reprisal in those years was an ambulance and cruel: they brought Kama ashore and began to torment. They did not drown in the river, leaving the mutilated bodies on the ice for intimidation. In the morning, cabmen came across them. Martyr found out, an urgent telegram was sent to the relatives, and mother and sisters arrived on the day of burial. On February 25, a funeral service for the Martyrs took place at the courtyard of the monastery. The burial place of the martyrs is unknown.