Presbyter
Ismail Nikolaevich Bazilevsky was born on July 7, 1881, in the village of Novo-Makarovka, Voronezh province, in the family of a psalmist. He graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary. From 1901 to 1909, he served as a teacher in a rural school, and then he accepted the priesthood in 1915. He served in the villages of Otskocnoe and Skornyakovo. In 1930, the church was closed, and he settled in Voronezh, where he worked at a factory and in various professions. His wife was Anna Nikolaevna, and he had a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Alexandra.
He was arrested on August 5, 1940. On September 17, 1940, he was sentenced under Article 58-10 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for 'antisemitism and the dissemination of counter-revolutionary agitation.' The sentence was 10 years in a labor camp and deprivation of civil rights. In March 1941, he was transported to Karlag, where on August 31, 1941, he was found guilty of 'counter-revolutionary statements' and sentenced to execution.
The sentence was carried out on November 17, 1941. The burial place is unknown. He was rehabilitated on May 19, 1998. He was canonized on August 20, 2000, by the Archdiocesan Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
