Basil Pobedonostsev

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Pobedonostsev, a priest, by his full name Basil Vladimirovich Pobedonostsev, was born in 1848 in Perm province. In 1870 he finished the Perm seminary and in 1878 he was ordained priest, serving at the Holy Trinity cathedral of the Kamensky works, Kamyshlov district. With a heart for poor students, he became an active member of the committee for aid to needy pupils of the Perm seminary. From 1896 he was dean of the second district of Kamyshlov. In 1899 he received the pectoral cross. On 29 March 1906, at his own request, he was relieved of his duties as dean, and in 1912 he was raised to archpriest.

After the godless Bolsheviks came to power, Archpriest Basil, then seventy years old, was arrested and tortured: on 10 June 1918 his head was cut off. He is commemorated on 23 July, on 7 February (a movable date) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, and on 11 February in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ekaterinburg, all in the new style.