Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was born on the 19th of January 1882 in the town of Yevlakh within the Elisabethpol Governorate. His father Aleksandr worked as a railroad engineer while his mother Olga belonged to the Tbilisi Armenian nobility from Georgia.
Florensky underwent a religious crisis connected to a visit with Leo Tolstoy during 1899. This crisis stemmed from an awareness of the limits and relativity of scientific positivism which had been integral to his initial formation.
On the 26th of February 1933 he was arrested again on suspicion of engaging in conspiracy with Pavel Gidiulianov. They were accused of plotting to overthrow the state and install a fascist monarchy with Nazi assistance.
He was shot dead on the night of the 8th of December 1937 in a wood not far from Leningrad. Antonio Maccioni states he was executed at Rzhevsky Artillery Range near Toksovo about twenty kilometers northeast of Leningrad.
Florensky was posthumously rehabilitated in 1958 regarding charges from 1933 and again in 1959 regarding 1937 charges. His name appeared among the list of New Martyrs and Confessors in 1982.