After defending the church in her village of Novorozhdestvenska against closure imposed by Soviet authorities, she was arrested by the NKVD, interrogated, and then deported to the Gulag, where she died four months after her arrival.

She is recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church with the title of martyr, and her memory is celebrated on January 28.

Her father was a forest ranger on the estate of the wealthy landowner Ilyn,[1] and she married in 1905,[2] at the age of 8 or 9.

[1] Evdokimova obtained a diploma from the communal school, her husband became a worker in a factory, and later a guard, and she had two children.

During her interrogation, she reportedly stated that she had consciously chosen to oppose the atheist Soviet authorities for their decision to close her church.