Basil Krasivsky

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Krasivsky, a priest, by his full name Basil Petrovich Krasivsky, was born in 1850 in Tomsk, in the family of a deacon. He was the brother of the Holy Hieromartyr Parthenius Krasivsky. In 1866 the family moved to the stanitsa of Urdzharskaya in the Semirechye region. In October 1869 he was appointed psalm-⁠reader in the stanitsa of Lepsinskaya, on 24 November 1876 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Sophonias (Sokolsky) for the Holy Trinity church in Lepsinskaya, and on 18 April of the next year he was moved to the church of Saint Elijah in Kuldja. On 22 September he returned to Lepsinskaya. On 14 September 1903 he was ordained priest, served at Lepsinsk and was a religion teacher at the parish school. From 1904 he served at the church of the Protection of the Mother of God in the village of Chemolgan, and in 1916 he was sent to the prison church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Verny.

He died a martyr in the autumn of 1919, at the hands of criminals released from prison, who tied him to the tail of a horse. His brother, the priest Parthenius, was burned in 1919 by men of Kikhtenko's detachment, by the left porch of the Kazan church in Verny, where a memorial cross stood until the closing of the church in 1936. Basil was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 16 September and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.