Basil Krymkin

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Krymkin, a priest, was born in 1901 in the village of Protasyevo, Ranenburg district, Ryazan province, in the family of the peasants Ivan Alexeevich and Marfa Leontievna Krymkin. At eight he entered the Holy Trinity Monastery, a verst and a half from the town of Lebedyan in Tambov province, finished the parish school there and was a novice until 1928, when the monastery was closed. He returned to his native village and was psalm-⁠reader at the church. In 1930 he was ordained priest and served at the Holy Trinity church in Ostafyevo, Podolsk district, Moscow region.

On 4 December 1937 he was arrested and interrogated the same day, and the investigation ended. He was asked whether he had carried on anti-⁠Soviet agitation and spread rumours of the speedy fall of Soviet power, and he denied everything and did not admit guilt. On 7 December 1937 an NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years in a camp. The priest Basil Krymkin died in the camp in Kuibyshev region on 4 October 1942.

He is commemorated on 4 October, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, on 5 September (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow, and on 23 September in the Synaxis of the Saints of Lipetsk, all in the new style.