Presbyter
Saint Vladimir was born on July 5, 1889, in the village of Izmailovo near Moscow. His father, the psalmist Platon, died before the onset of persecution against the Russian Orthodox Church, and his mother passed away in 1918. Vladimir graduated from the Perervinsky Spiritual School and served as a psalmist. In 1923, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1925, he became a priest. He served in the church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” in the village of Assaurovo.
In 1930, the church was closed, and he was appointed to serve in the church in the village of Legchishchevo. On November 11, 1937, the priest was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in Serpukhov. The basis for his arrest was the testimony of witnesses. During the interrogation, he rejected all accusations of counter-revolutionary agitation.
On November 17, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death. Priest Vladimir Krasnovsky was shot on November 25, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
