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== Captivity and death ==
On January 29th, 1996, during the First Chechen war, he together with together with archpriest Sergius Zhigulin he has been grasped from External Church Relations Department were going to meet with Brigadier General Akhmed Zakayev to conduct negotiations about liberation from chechen captivity of a soldier of the Federal Forces, however they were captured by terrorists the armed group under Doku Makhayev's command themselves and was were placed in a concentration camp of so-called «Department of state security of the Chechen republic Ichkeria». Under tortures he fr. Anatoly did not stipulated himself and not renounced belief and, as a result, has been shot by them.
He was martyred in February 14th, 1996.
On april 29, 2000 Federal Security Service of the Russia passed to metr. [[Kyrill I (Gundyayev) of Moscow|Kyrill of Smolensk]], Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, a selection of the documents testifying to destiny of the priest of Michael Archangel church Anatoly Chistousov, abducted by the Chechen terrorists on January, 29th, 1996.
During the period, when a destiny of fr. Anatoly remained unknown, the Church hierarchy undertook attempts of liberating the abducted priest, as well as and other clergymen and the children of Church captivated in the Chechnya. Sometimes prisoners finally found freedom, in others, to a regret, they was executed by gangsters and reposed in settlements of rightenous.
Remains of father Anatoly were exhumated just in July, 2003 in mountains near Old Achkhoy. Now he has been buried on the Stavropol cemetry.
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