The New Martyrs of the St. Cyril of White Lake Monastery were four laymen — Anatoly Barashkov, Nicholas Burlakov, Michael Trubnikov, and Philip Marishev — who were shot during the Bolshevik persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1918. They suffered together with the clergy at Kirillov in the Russian North, and are commemorated on September 2. They are numbered among the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
The four laymen were not put to death alone but as part of a single group of victims. According to the tradition of their martyrdom, they were led to execution together with Barsanuphius (Lebedev), Bishop of Kyrillov, and Seraphima (Sulimova), Abbess of the nearby Therapontov Convent. The bishop, the abbess, and the four laymen — six in all — were taken from prison in the early hours and brought out to be shot.
The St. Cyril of White Lake Monastery, also known as the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, was one of the great monasteries of the Russian North, founded by St. Cyril of Belozersk in 1397 on the shore of Lake Siverskoye at Kirillov. During the year 1918 it became one of many religious houses targeted in the early Soviet campaign against the Church, when clergy, monastics, and faithful laypeople across Russia were imprisoned and executed.
