Presbyter
Saint Martyr Vasily was born in 1891 in the village of Spas-Doshtaty in the Zaraysk district of the Ryazan province in the family of priest Alexey Kolosov. After graduating from the Ryazan Theological Seminary in 1915, he served as a psalmist in the Vvedensky Church in the village of Podlesnaya Sloboda until 1927. In 1927, he was ordained as a priest. His sermons were interpreted as anti-Soviet, and he fell silent.
In December 1929, he was arrested for agitating against the creation of collective farms. The village council requisitioned part of his property due to his inability to pay taxes. On January 30, 1930, he was arrested and interrogated, where he indicated that he expressed dissatisfaction with the burden of taxes. On March 3, 1930, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a concentration camp.
In 1934, he returned from imprisonment and was assigned to serve in the Transfiguration Church. On September 27, 1937, he was arrested again and imprisoned. On October 13, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment, and he was sent to the BAMlag. In 1939, he was transferred to a camp in the Sverdlovsk region, where he passed away on May 22, 1939, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
