Anisia Ivanovna Maslanova was born in the village of Barmino, Makarievsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province. She was the headman of the Baptist Church in Nizhny Novgorod. In the fall of 1937, she was arrested and charged with participation in a counter-revolutionary church rebel organization. She did not plead guilty and did not testify against others, she was sentenced to be shot
