Basil Krylov

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Krylov, a priest, was born in 1899 in the village of Assaurovo, Dmitrov district, Moscow province, in the family of the psalm-⁠reader Alexander Krylov. In 1918 he finished the Bethany seminary and was mobilized into the Red Army, in a reserve regiment in Moscow. In 1922 he was demobilized, returned home and married Natalia, the daughter of the priest of the Transfiguration church at Spas-⁠Korkodino, Klin district. In the same year Bishop Innocent (Letyaev) of Klin ordained him deacon for the church at Spas-⁠Korkodino, and in 1925 Bishop Gabriel (Krasnovsky) ordained him priest for the same church, where he served until it was closed in 1930.

After that he worked as a watchman and accountant on a state farm, but did not hide that he was a priest and was dismissed. In 1933 he was sent to the church at Pokrovsky Pogost, which was closed four years later, then to the Ascension church at Surmino, closed after half a year, then to the church of the Protection of the Mother of God at Andreevskoe. Parishioners remembered him as a good, quiet and modest pastor. On 13 April 1938 he was arrested and held in Dmitrov. At the interrogations he did not admit guilt. On 14 June 1938 an NKVD troika sentenced him to death, and on 1 July 1938 the priest Basil Krylov was shot and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.

He is commemorated on 1 July, on 29 May (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo, and on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, all in the new style.