In autumn 1918 there was an anti-Bolshevik Peasant Uprising in Sanskoe village (Spassky uezd, Ryazan Province). When the uprising broke out Archpriest Pavel Ivanovich Alfeyev, a teacher at the Ryazan seminary, was in the nearby village of Degtyanoe. The peasants asked him to conduct a service in support of their cause. He blessed them, but did not take part in the uprising himself, according to available information.
The uprising was crushed, and twenty people, including Alfeyev, were sentenced to death. The executions were carried out in the woods near the village of Degtyanoe. Witnesses say that the bodies were also buried there. Subsequently it was forbidden to rebury their remains.
In 2010, a memorial cross was erected on the site of the execution and burial by the congregation of the church of the Resurrection and its priest Konstantin Mikhailov.
The Memorial online database (2025) lists 23,709 victims in the Ryazan Region (BR 15,897). See Ryazan cemetery.
It names 981 who were shot, most during the Great Terror (846), but the database indicates that many more (1,548) were condemned to death, 1,281 of them in 1937 and 1938. Seventeen were convicted and shot in 1918. Charges against 1,375 others were dropped (only two deaths in captivity are recorded).
| Date | Nature of ceremonies | Organiser or responsible person | Participants | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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12 June
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Commemorative Services
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villagers from Degtyanoe and Sanskoe
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Annual event
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| State of burials | Area | Boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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Have not survived
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not established
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unmarked
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