Academic Periodical

The article introduces into academic discourse the history and composition of the women’s religious community created before the revolution in Red Valley village, Zadonsk district, Voronezh province, by Priest Mitrophan Fyodorovich Buchnev whose name is included in the database “New Martyrs, Confessors for Christ who suffered during the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church in the XX century”. After his conditional conviction in 1920 and his relocation to Voronezh, some members of the community followed him. Soon this association became the centre of attraction for Voronezh believers from different social strata. The life journeys of the community members and of the priest himself are traced on the basis of documentary sources.