Presbyter
Saint Martyr Basil was born on February 24, 1864, in the city of Serpukhov, Moscow Province. In 1884, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary, was ordained a priest, and served in the church in the village of Matveyevsky from 1885 to 1891. Later, he was transferred to the church of the Akhtyr Icon of the Mother of God, where he organized three parish schools. In 1914, he was awarded a golden pectoral cross, and in 1919, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter.
In 1920, he was arrested and sentenced to three months of conditional imprisonment. In 1929, due to the intensification of persecution against the Church, he was arrested again and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. On November 23, 1929, he was sentenced to three years of exile in the Northern region.
After his release in 1932, he was appointed to serve in the church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the village of Timashevo. In 1937, he was arrested again and imprisoned in a prison in the city of Volokolamsk. On November 11, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protopresbyter Basil Arkhangelsky was shot on November 13, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and buried in an unknown common grave.
