The holy martyr Pavel Vasilievsky

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys.

“Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

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The holy martyr Pavel Vasilievsky

Pavel Vasilievsky - the son of a clergyman from the village of Karabuzino, Kesovogorsky district of the Tver province. The family was large, nine children. The father died in 1886, when Pavel was five years old, his uncle took him up. Pavel graduated from the spiritual school. In 1916, he was drafted into the army and served until 1918 in the 177th reserve infantry regiment stationed in Novgorod. After demobilization, he returned to his homeland and served in the temple as a psalmist, then he married and was ordained a priest to the temple in the village of Sobotskoye. Father -in -law bought for the family about. Pavel’s house, he had five children, but only the youngest daughter of Tamara remained alive. Subsequently, the priest served in the St. Nicholas Church of the village of Dobrynino of the Maksatikhinsky district.

Father Paul was arrested on August 6, 1937 at six in the evening. He just returned with his wife and daughter from the forest, where they collected mushrooms and berries for the winter. Three employees of the NKVD came. They turned the whole house turned over, but they took nothing. Wife and daughters, despite the requests, did not allow the priest to conduct the priest to the outskirts. They led on foot, simultaneously producing arrests in other villages. They reached the village of Dymtsevo, where they arrested a deep old man, priest Mikhail Kosukhin, who could not go; Here, all the arrested were loaded into the car and taken to jail.

The investigation in the case of Fr. Paul lasted only four days. For two days, the investigator interrogated the peasants of the Dobryninsky parish, some of whom were already arrested. On the third day, August 9, the investigator interrogated the priest.

- Tell us about your anti -Soviet and counter -revolutionary activity.
- He did not engage in anti -Soviet and counter -revolutionary activities.
- How do you consider the fact of going home and collecting signatures for walking with an icon during the spring sowing?
- I deny the fact of Seva’s breakdown, if I was, only in the village of Dubeshchi, since I was allowed to go there in the morning, and in some houses of collective farmers there were adults, although I did not ask them to stay.
- Tell us about your connection with Voilia Vasily Fedoseevich.
- He is my parishioner, his children sang in the church.
- What conversations did you conduct in the church on war and your views on the future war?
- I never conducted conversations about the war in the church. I think that we will not have a war soon, what I am convinced of, although I did not tell anyone about it.

The next day, on August 10, without leaving the village, the Lieutenant of the NKVD troops ended the investigation, considering that, despite the fact that the priest did not plead guilty, his guilt in anti -state activity was proved, and transferred the case to the Troika of the NKVD, which decided on September 13 to shoot.

Priest Pavel Vasilievsky was shot a few days later, on September 17, 1937.