New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Dmitrov) of Tver

Nicholas Dmitrov was a Russian Orthodox priest of the Tver region who was put to death during the Soviet persecution of the Church in the twentieth century. He is numbered among the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and is commemorated on February 23.

According to the account compiled from Russian sources, he was born on May 14, 1878, in the village of Kuntsevo in the Moscow Governorate, the son of a priest named Lavr Dmitrov, who was of Bulgarian descent. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1900 and afterward worked for a time as a teacher in his home village. In 1908 he married Ekaterina, the daughter of a priest named Nicholas Rozanov.

In 1909 he was ordained to the priesthood, by tradition at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, and was appointed to serve in the village of Zavidovo in the Tver eparchy, where he remained for the rest of his ministry. During the years of persecution he was elevated to the rank of archpriest. He was arrested on the night of February 8, 1938, while gravely ill, and was accused of counter-revolutionary activity, a charge he denied. On March 6, 1938, an NKVD troika sentenced him to death, and on March 8, 1938, he was shot in a prison in Tver and buried in an unmarked common grave.