30 March] 1874 in the village of Vyropaikha (present-day Dolgopolovskaya) near Krasnoborsk, Vologda Governorate of the Russian Empire to Maria Nikolayevna and Yegor Nikolayevich Bekryashev.

[3] From 1918, Bekryashev was at the center of the circle of local intellectuals in Veliky Ustyug, whose goal was to preserve the historical heritage of the town.

Bekryashev and his colleagues found a way to compromise with the authorities, so that the church property was confiscated, but declared to be the historical and cultural heritage, transferred to the museum and preserved there.

In 1921, Bekryashev managed to attract the commission from Moscow, which evaluated the Veliky Ustyg buildings and concluded on which of them represent the cultural heritage.

[4] Nikolay Bekryashev was arrested on 20 February 1938 during the Great Purge and sentenced to three years in prison for counter-revolutionary activity.