Basil Krasnov

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Krasnov, a priest, by his full name Basil Timofeevich Krasnov, was born in 1886 in the village of Kalinovka, Buguruslan district, Samara province (now the Sergievsk district), in a peasant family. After four classes of seminary he was a psalm-⁠reader in the village of Pavlovka. In 1914 he was called into the army and fought until January 1918; between September and November 1919 he served in the Red Army. In 1921 he was ordained a priest.

On 4 June 1935 he was arrested and sentenced by the Special Council of the NKVD to three years in a camp. On 16 December he arrived at the Karaganda camp and worked as a watchman. In the hut where he lived imprisoned priests gathered for common prayer. In October 1937, together with the other participants in these prayer meetings, he was arrested on a charge that he "joined a counter-⁠revolutionary group... took part in the illegal gatherings of the group, where counter-⁠revolutionary conversations were held, and on his own initiative put his dwelling (the hut) at the disposal of the gatherings". Father Basil did not deny the prayer meetings, but did not admit guilt. The arrested priests were shot by decision of the NKVD troika of Karaganda region of 20 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave. He was glorified by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.

He is commemorated on 20 November and on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, in the new style.