Presbyter
Saint Martyr Vasily Petrovich Krasivsky was born in 1850 in Tomsk, in the family of a deacon. In 1866, the family moved to the Urjar stanitsa of the Semirechensk region. In October 1869, he was appointed psalmist in the Lepsinskaya stanitsa. On November 24, 1876, he was ordained deacon to the Trinity Church of the Lepsinskaya stanitsa by Bishop Sophoniy, and on April 18, 1877, he was transferred to the Ilyinskaya Church in Kuldzha. On September 22, he returned to Lepsinskaya. On September 14, 1903, he was ordained priest, served in the city of Lepsinsk, and was a law teacher in the church-parish school. From 1904, he served in the Pokrovskaya Church in the village of Chemolgan. In 1916, he was sent to the prison church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Verny. He suffered martyrdom in the autumn of 1919 at the hands of criminals released from prison, who tied him to the tail of a horse. He was glorified by the Archdiocesan Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
