Presbyter
Saint Martyr Basil was born on January 25, 1875, in the village of Andreevskoye, Kolomensky District, Moscow Province. He received his education at the Kolomensky Spiritual School and graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary in 1894. From 1895, he served as a psalmist in the Assumption Cathedral in the city of Dmitrov, and in 1903 he was ordained a priest for the Assumption Church in the village of Morozovo. From June 22, 1911, he served in the Nikolsky Church in the village of Poltevo, where he was the head of the Poltev Church School until its closure. In 1921, he was awarded a pectoral cross and elevated to the rank of protopresbyter.
After the closure of the Nikolsky Church in the 1930s, he began serving in the Transfiguration Church in the village of Ostrov. The first service here took place on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord in 1937. On November 25, 1937, he was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary agitation. On December 1, 1937, a troika of the NKVD sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in corrective labor camps. He passed away on January 16, 1938, in the Suslovsky section of the Siblag and was buried in an unmarked grave.
