Martyr Andrey Elevyshev

Andrei Elorishev - the son of Bezhetsky (Tver province) of a merchant who was engaged in the trade of flour goods and for this purpose renting a bench in the city. Andrei Evleyshev inherited his father’s classes and was engaged in the trade in flax seed, flax -fiber, becoming a large specialist in this area eventually. Without leaving his trade business, he served as a sorter in the French company Ernest Mack, who had his representative in Bezhetsk.

In the First World War, he was called up to the front. After the revolution, all his property: warehouses, shops and houses - was selected by the authorities. The house in which he lived with his wife burned down during a fire in 1921, and Andrei Evleyshev, who was already 49 years old at that moment, built a new one in the same place. But he was subsequently selected by the authorities, and he had to rent an apartment. Andrei Elevyshev never spared about the loss of property - God gave, God took. By 1937, he had only a horse with a winter and summer harness, which allowed him to work as a cartoon in a state institution.

A deeply religious person, he was the headman in the St. Nicholas Church in Bezhetsk, where at that time the Vicar of the Tver diocese served, Bishop Grigory Bezhetsky (Kozyrev); With him and his priest brothers, Andrei Eloryshev had a long-standing friendly relationship.

On November 3, 1937, the deputy head of the Bezhetsky department of the NKVD made a certificate of the arrest of Andrei Ivanovich, which said that he belonged "to the church counter -revolutionary group from among former merchants and nuns."

On the night of November 3, Andrei Ivanovich was arrested.

- Tell us the investigation with whom you from the former merchants and persons of the spiritual rank have an acquaintance and maintain communications.
- At present, I have no dating and connections with any of the former merchants or clergymen. In the past, about a year in 1932-1933, I was once invited to names to Bishop Grigory Kozyrev. Sometimes I visited the apartment of Bishop Gregory on church issues ...
- Tell us what kind of you and Kozyrev had conversations on the named after.
- During my presence of conversations on political topics or about the relationship of the Church and the state, there were no.
- The investigation has the data that you, being at one of the assembly of the clergy, spoke about the unprofitability of collective farms and were indignant at the regime of Soviet power. Do you find yourself guilty?
- I do not find guilty of this, did not express such thoughts against collective farms or Soviet power.
- Do you know where Grigory Kozyrev and his brothers Ivan and Vasily are currently located?
- I heard before my arrest ... that Bishop Grigory Kozyrev and his brothers Ivan and Vasily were arrested by the NKVD bodies; For what is unknown to me.
- The investigation found that you, being in the apartment of Grigory Kozyrev during his name day, as well as for the second time during his anniversary in 1935, was conducting a conversation of a counter -revolutionary nature, directed against the Soviet regime. Tell us what kind of conversation of an anti -Soviet nature you led against the Soviet regime.
- I deny it. We did not conduct any counter -revolutionary conversation against the Soviet regime and the party.
- The investigation found that you were in August 1937 ... In the church among the population, they expressed a fierce anger at the address of the Soviet regime, preaching an unbearable life in the Soviet Union, and threatened the Crusade of the Pope. Do you find yourself guilty of this?
- No, I completely deny it and say that I have never said this.
- The investigation last time from you requires true testimonies about your counter -revolutionary activity.
- I declare that I will not tell the investigation about counter -revolutionary activity at all, since I never conducted it.

On December 27, 1937, the Troika of the NKVD sentenced Andrei Evleyyshev to ten years in prison in a correctional labor camp.

He died on March 7, 1941 in the Kargopollag of the Arkhangelsk region and was buried in an unknown grave.