Basil Razumov

Holy Hieromartyr Basil Razumov, a priest, was born in 1879 in the village of Kuchino, near the city of Sudislavl, in a poor peasant family. In the early 1930s he served as a priest in the Krasnoe-⁠on-⁠the-⁠Volga district. In 1932 he was arrested and sentenced to five years in a camp, from which he was released early, in 1935, because of his health.

Archbishop Nicodemus of Kostroma and Galich, the holy hieromartyr, who then headed the Kostroma diocese, appointed him to the Holy Trinity church in the village of Troitsa, Nerekhta district, formerly the church of the Trinity-⁠Sypanov Pachomius-⁠Nerekhta monastery. In the years of persecution, strengthened by his mentor and spiritual friend, Father Basil zealously defended the truth and purity of Orthodoxy, encouraged his flock to stand for the justice of God and guarded the church against attempts to close and desecrate it.

On 5 August 1937, right after the service, he was arrested again. On 21 September 1937 he was shot and buried in the environs of the city of Nerekhta. His glorification among the locally venerated saints of the Kostroma diocese took place on 28 May 2000, on the day of the celebration of the 325th anniversary of the finding of the relics of Venerable Pachomius of Nerekhta, in the revived convent.

He is commemorated on 21 September, in the new style.