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| Monk Sadok Alferov (left) Maria and Anna Kandalina (right) |
Monk Sadok, in the world Sergius Trofimovich Alferov was born in 1889 in the village of Dmitrievka, Gremyachensky uyezd, Voronezh province into a peasant family, and was a solitary peasant.
In 1930 he was arrested and exiled. In 1933 he escaped from exile and was without fixed occupation. In 1943 he was hiding from service in the Red Army in an underground church in the village of Uglyanets. In 1944 he received the tonsure with the name Sadok.
On January 13, 1945 he was arrested and accused that he was “a participant in an anti-Soviet group of the monastic underground,” and that he became a secret monk “in order to escape mobilization in the workers’ army”. On July 12, 1945 he was sentenced to five years in the camps and was sent to the village of Dolinskoye in Karlag. On December 12, 1949 he was exiled to Krasnoyarsk district, Udereisky region, but was later transferred to Dzerzhinsky region. Nothing more is known about him.
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Maria Alexeyevna Kandalina was born in 1905 (1907, according to documents) in the village of Gorshkovo, Novo-Sheshminsk uyezd into a peasant family, and received an elementary education. In 1923 she married Alexander Petrovich Kandalin-Anisimov, the son of a kulak who was dekulakized in 1929. In 1928 she and her family were living in the town of Lysva, Molotov province, and from 1930 – at Polovinki station. From 1935 she was working as a cleaner in Moscow, and later as a courier in “Mosstroistrest”.
In 1942 she moved with three children to the village of Yelantovo to her relative Akulina Plekhanova (her two sons refused to serve in the army and were sent to a camp). She got to know Fr. Michael Yershov and began to go to his services in Yelantovo forest. Then she got to know Hieromonk Philaret.
On September 18, 1943 she was arrested in Aksubayevo wood, and on August 18, 1944 was sentenced to ten years in the camps with disenfranchisement for five years. She was sent to Usollag (Berezinki, Molotov province). She worked as an assistant cook, and was later transferred to the cutting and preparing of wood products.
On July 25, 1945 she ran away from the camp, got to Kizel, then by railway to Usol, then on the river Kama by steamboat to Smylovka quay, from where she walked to Yelantovo in August. She went into hiding in Yamashi, Sheremetyevo, Novo-Sheshmino and Chistopol regions, living mainly with Pelagia Kionova, who acquainted her with members of her group. Her daughter visited her by night.
In the summer of 1946 she joined the group of True Orthodox Christians led by Hieromonk Philaret. She went to secret festal services at holy springs near Sheremetyevo, Yusupkino, Bilyarsk and Yelantovo forest, and also in houses in the villages of Kuzaikino, Maly Batras and Yusupkino.
On August 30, 1948 she was arrested, but refused to sign the protocols of the interrogations. She
was accused that: “being a participant in an illegal anti-Soviet organization, the True Orthodox Church, she conducted anti-Soviet activity, opposing the enterprises of the Communist Party and the Soviet government. She often took part in illegal meetings of participants in the organization, where under the cover of religious rites anti-Soviet activity was discussed.” On November 22, 1948 she was sentenced to twenty-five years in the camps with disenfranchisement for five years. On October 16, 1949 she was taken under convoy to Sevvostlag (Magadan). Nothing more is known about her.
In 1930 he was arrested and exiled. In 1933 he escaped from exile and was without fixed occupation. In 1943 he was hiding from service in the Red Army in an underground church in the village of Uglyanets. In 1944 he received the tonsure with the name Sadok.
On January 13, 1945 he was arrested and accused that he was “a participant in an anti-Soviet group of the monastic underground,” and that he became a secret monk “in order to escape mobilization in the workers’ army”. On July 12, 1945 he was sentenced to five years in the camps and was sent to the village of Dolinskoye in Karlag. On December 12, 1949 he was exiled to Krasnoyarsk district, Udereisky region, but was later transferred to Dzerzhinsky region. Nothing more is known about him.
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Maria Alexeyevna Kandalina was born in 1905 (1907, according to documents) in the village of Gorshkovo, Novo-Sheshminsk uyezd into a peasant family, and received an elementary education. In 1923 she married Alexander Petrovich Kandalin-Anisimov, the son of a kulak who was dekulakized in 1929. In 1928 she and her family were living in the town of Lysva, Molotov province, and from 1930 – at Polovinki station. From 1935 she was working as a cleaner in Moscow, and later as a courier in “Mosstroistrest”.
In 1942 she moved with three children to the village of Yelantovo to her relative Akulina Plekhanova (her two sons refused to serve in the army and were sent to a camp). She got to know Fr. Michael Yershov and began to go to his services in Yelantovo forest. Then she got to know Hieromonk Philaret.
On September 18, 1943 she was arrested in Aksubayevo wood, and on August 18, 1944 was sentenced to ten years in the camps with disenfranchisement for five years. She was sent to Usollag (Berezinki, Molotov province). She worked as an assistant cook, and was later transferred to the cutting and preparing of wood products.
On July 25, 1945 she ran away from the camp, got to Kizel, then by railway to Usol, then on the river Kama by steamboat to Smylovka quay, from where she walked to Yelantovo in August. She went into hiding in Yamashi, Sheremetyevo, Novo-Sheshmino and Chistopol regions, living mainly with Pelagia Kionova, who acquainted her with members of her group. Her daughter visited her by night.
In the summer of 1946 she joined the group of True Orthodox Christians led by Hieromonk Philaret. She went to secret festal services at holy springs near Sheremetyevo, Yusupkino, Bilyarsk and Yelantovo forest, and also in houses in the villages of Kuzaikino, Maly Batras and Yusupkino.
On August 30, 1948 she was arrested, but refused to sign the protocols of the interrogations. She
was accused that: “being a participant in an illegal anti-Soviet organization, the True Orthodox Church, she conducted anti-Soviet activity, opposing the enterprises of the Communist Party and the Soviet government. She often took part in illegal meetings of participants in the organization, where under the cover of religious rites anti-Soviet activity was discussed.” On November 22, 1948 she was sentenced to twenty-five years in the camps with disenfranchisement for five years. On October 16, 1949 she was taken under convoy to Sevvostlag (Magadan). Nothing more is known about her.