Alexander Vinogradov was a Russian Orthodox priest who died in confinement during the Soviet persecution of the Church and is numbered among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. He is commemorated on September 9.
By the accounts preserved in Russian hagiographical sources, Alexander Ivanovich Vinogradov was born on June 1, 1884, in Moscow, into a clerical family: his father, Ivan Mikhailovich Vinogradov, was a psalmist who served at the Church of the Resurrection at the Vagankovo Cemetery. He received a seminary education, completing studies at the Don (Donskoe) Spiritual Seminary in 1899 and at the Moscow Spiritual Seminary in 1905, and in time served as a protopriest.
During the intensified repression of the clergy in the late 1930s, Father Alexander was sentenced on December 5, 1937, by an NKVD troika to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp and was deported with a transport of prisoners to the Far East. According to these sources he died of pellagra, a disease of severe malnutrition, on September 22, 1942, in the town of Svobodny, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
He is commemorated among the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church. As with much of the New-Martyr tail, the surviving record is sparse and rests chiefly on Russian-language sources; details of his parish ministry before arrest are not well documented in the materials consulted.
