St. Anna Petrovna Lykoshina (1925)
On October 11 (September 28 on the Julian Calendar) we commemorate Saint Anna Petrovna Lykoshina, martyr under the Communist yoke, who reposed in the Lord in 1918.
Martyr Anna Petrovna Lykoshina was born in 1884 in St. Petersburg. She married; her husband was the brother of the deputy minister of Internal Affairs. Anna Petrovna was a deeply religious person and a regular parishioner of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh on Sergievskaya Street in St. Petersburg. After the revolution and the introduction of the law on the separation of Church and state, the authorities required parishes to create parish councils of laypeople who were to assume responsibility for the safety of nationalized church property. One of the priests of the St. Sergius Church persuaded Anna Petrovna, as a regular parishioner, to join the parish council. Due to her health, she was unable to actively participate in its work, but despite this, the authorities arrested her in February 1924 along with other members of the parish council and priests of the St. Sergius Church. During interrogations, she did not admit guilt to the charges brought against her.
On September 26, 1924, the Special Conference of the OGPU Collegium sentenced Anna Petrovna to two years of imprisonment in the Solovetsky concentration camp, and in October of that year she was sent to Solovetsky Island. The conditions of imprisonment in which she found herself were so harsh that she did not live to see the end of her sentence and died on Solovki on October 11, 1925.