Victor Krasnov of Aglomazovo

Holy Martyr Victor Krasnov of Aglomazovo was a peasant and parishioner of Father Nicholas Probatov, and he was shot with the priest and the other faithful of the village, at the river Tsna, by a Bolshevik punitive detachment.

The calendar page says no more of him than his name. The story of all of them is this. The priest Nicholas Probatov had been born in 1874 in Ignatievo near Kadom and had served since 1906 at the church of the Theophany in Aglomazovo. He was known for his fervent services, for the parish school built through his labor, and for his charity, taking no payment for services. In February 1918 the peasants who did not want to enter the Red Guard set out, armed with axes and pitchforks, for the district town, and the priest blessed them. The company scattered under machine-⁠gun fire, but the Bolsheviks did not forgive, and a punitive detachment came to the village.

The priest refused to flee. The arrested were taken to a cellar and beaten, and the priest was mocked, but he answered: "Christ suffered without sin, and we suffer for our own sins." Eighteen condemned, after confession, were led in the evening to the river Tsna and put in two groups. Father Nicholas cried out with raised hands: "Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do." After the first volley he rose and went on praying until he fell at the second. Thirteen were killed, among them the church warden Cosmas Egorovich, the peasants Victor Krasnov, Naum and Philip (father and son), John, Paul, Andrew, Paul, Basil, Alexis, John and Agatha. The others crawled by night to the houses and were hidden by the villagers.

The next day the priest's body was found stiff, with raised hands and fingers held for blessing; the villagers said that "even dead he blesses us". He was buried secretly, at night, by priests of neighboring parishes.

Saint Victor is commemorated on 11 November and, in the new style, on 7 February (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church and on 23 June in the Synaxis of the Saints of Ryazan.