Vladimir Krasnovsky

Holy Hieromartyr Vladimir Krasnovsky was a priest in the village of Legishchevo, Lopasnya district, Moscow region, and was shot on 25 November 1937 at Butovo.

He was born on 5 July 1889 in the village of Izmailovo near Moscow, in the family of the psalm-⁠reader Plato Krasnovsky, whose wife served at the prosphora oven. His father died before the persecution and his mother in 1918. He finished the Perervin theological school, was for a time a psalm-⁠reader like his father and in 1923 was ordained deacon by Bishop Gabriel Krasnovsky of Klin at the church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in the village of Assaurovo, Dmitrov district. In 1925, when the place of priest at the church of the Holy Spirit in Dubrovki fell vacant, the meeting of parishioners unanimously decided to ask Bishop Seraphim Zvezdinsky of Dmitrov to ordain the deacon, and the request was granted. In 1930 the church was closed, and from 1931 Father Vladimir served in the church of Legishchevo.

On 11 November 1937 he was arrested and held at Serpukhov, on the testimony of two witnesses at a secret interrogation. The same day he was questioned: he denied having agitated against the authorities or the collective farms, saying that he could not make sense of politics; he also rejected the charge of having spoken at a funeral meal at Pikalovo, and said that he had read the constitution and found it good. He denied everything that was read to him from the testimonies and refused to admit guilt. On 17 November an NKVD troika sentenced him to death, and Priest Vladimir Krasnovsky was shot on 25 November 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing ground.

The saint is commemorated on 25 November and, in the new style, on 29 May (movable) in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Butovo and on 5 September (movable) in the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.