Ismail Nikolaevich Bazilevsky

Born on July 7, 1881, in the village of Novomakarovo, Novo-Khopersky district, Voronezh province, in the family of a priest.

In 1897, he graduated from the Voronezh Theological School with a second-class certificate and completed four years of seminary.

He served as a psalmist in the Pokrovsky Church in the village of Nizhne-Pokrovsky, Biryuchensky district (now the village of Prilepy, Krasnogvardeysky district, Belgorod region). He was appointed to this position on March 8, 1901.

From 1901 to 1909, he worked as a rural school teacher. For some time, he managed the estate of the landowner Reznikov.

He married Anna Nikolaevna, and they had two children.

On March 7, 1915, he was ordained a deacon for the Trinity Church in the village of Vasilyevka, Bobrovsky district.

On March 18, 1915, he was ordained a priest for the Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Otskoche, Zadonsky district.

From 1923 to 1930, he served as a priest in the village of Skornyakovo in the same district. In 1930, the church in the village was closed.

In 1930, he moved to Voronezh.

From 1936, he worked in various jobs as a painter and stove-maker.

On August 5, 1940, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Semitism, praising the tsarist regime, hostility towards Soviet power, and spreading counter-revolutionary agitation among his circle." He categorically denied the charges.

On September 17, 1940, he was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor and 5 subsequent years of loss of civil rights. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of the RSFSR on October 7, 1940.

From March 1941, he served his sentence in Karlag (Karaganda region, Kazakhstan).

On August 31, 1941, he was arrested in Karlag on charges that "in July-August 1941, he systematically expressed counter-revolutionary slanderous and defeatist statements among the prisoners, praising the capitalist system. The defendant Bazilevsky did not admit guilt in the charges..."

On November 4, 1941, he was sentenced to execution by shooting by the permanent session of the Karaganda Regional Court at Karlag NKVD.

After the closed court session in the village of Dolinka, priest Bazilevsky I. N., disagreeing with the verdict, filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of the Kazakh SSR, in which he completely refuted the accusations and requested a retrial, but the appeal did not affect the sentence.

He was executed on November 17, 1941, and the burial place is unknown.

On December 4, 1992, he was rehabilitated by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (for the 1940 repressions).

He was canonized among the new martyrs and confessors of Russia at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.