Lives and martyrdom
John Petrovich Pavlovsky (born 1876) was a parish priest. According to the surviving record, he was arrested on June 30, 1937, and held in the prison at Izhma. On September 16, 1937, he was sentenced to death by a troika of the NKVD administration for the Komi ASSR, and he was shot on September 19, 1937, in the village of Izhma.
Vsevolod Ivanovich Poteminsky (born March 30, 1870) came from a clerical family; his father served at a church in the Vologda region. After studies at the Vologda Theological Seminary, he served as a deacon from 1890 and later as a priest. He was accused of conducting counter-revolutionary activity against Soviet measures, and was executed on September 19, 1937 — the same day as Father John.
Both priests are venerated among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who suffered in the twentieth-century persecutions of the Russian Orthodox Church.