New Hieromartyr Dmitry Troitsky

Dmitry Troitsky was a deacon of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed during the Soviet persecution of the Church in 1937. He is numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, and is also commemorated among the new martyrs who suffered at the Butovo firing range near Moscow. His liturgical commemoration falls on September 9.

According to his biography, he was born in 1884 in the village of Maksheevo, in the Egoryevsk (Kolomna) district of Moscow province, into the family of a deacon. He completed the Kolomna Theological Seminary in 1901 and served as a psalm-reader at the Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Pochinki, where he was ordained deacon in 1924.

From 1930 onward he was repeatedly arrested under the anti-religious campaigns of the period. He was first sentenced to exile for failing to meet state grain quotas, and again in 1933 on a charge of counter-revolutionary agitation, which he denied. After returning from exile he resumed his service until his final arrest in September 1937. He was sentenced to death by an NKVD troika and shot at the Butovo polygon on September 21, 1937, and buried in an unmarked common grave. He was glorified among the New Martyrs by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.