Basil Krylov

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Krylov, a priest, was born on 27 July 1892 in the village of Emmaus, Tver district and province, in the family of a priest. In 1914 he finished the Tver seminary and was a teacher in a parish school. In 1917 he was ordained deacon, and in 1919 priest for the church in the village of Kuksa, Kalyazin district, and was later made rector. In 1927 he was dispossessed as a "kulak" and accused of "anti-⁠Soviet agitation", and under threat of arrest had to hide with his family. In 1931 he and his wife were arrested and sentenced by the Kalyazin people's court to three years of exile, and on the way his wife died. Soon he was acquitted and settled in the village of Zaozerye, Yaroslavl region, where he was appointed rector.

On 12 September 1936 he was arrested again and held in Rostov, on a charge of "counter-⁠revolutionary activity", that is, "anti-⁠collective-⁠farm sermons, illegal gatherings in church and at home with the reading of the Bible", "defeatist agitation" and "discrediting the leaders of the Soviet state". He categorically refused to admit guilt. On 19 February 1937 a special college of the Yaroslavl regional court sentenced him to eight years in a camp. He first served his term at Rybinsk, in the Volga camp, and in early autumn 1938 was moved to the Northeast camp in the Far Eastern territory, where he died in 1938. By decision of the Holy Synod of 27 December 2000 he was entered into the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

He is commemorated on 19 November, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, on 5 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, and on 18 July (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Tver, all in the new style.