Bazilevich Vasily Petrovich

Born December 9, 1882 in the village of Stefanovshchina (Stepanovka) in the Ustivitskaya volost of the Khorol district of the Poltava province. His father was a priest in the same village, and his mother was a hereditary noblewoman. His father died in 1886. After his father's death, the family lived on a farm near Poltava. He entered a theological school at government expense - there were no funds for education in a gymnasium or a real school. He left the third grade of the school and entered the 33rd Yeletsky Infantry Regiment in Poltava as a second-class volunteer on January 21, 1900.

In August 1904, he graduated from the Irkutsk Cadet School, was promoted to second lieutenant, and was sent to the 159th Gurian Infantry Regiment. He got married. The regiment was mobilized for the Russo-Japanese War, in Manchuria. In 1905, he suffered from Spanish flu and began to go deaf.

From the moment he graduated from the Irkutsk school, he served as a junior officer, battalion adjutant, commandant's adjutant in Novonikolaevsk, and then, due to a significant deterioration in his hearing, he was in charge of a non-combatant company and was a regimental quartermaster.

In November 1907 he was promoted to lieutenant. He was assigned as a member-receiver of the Tomsk military reception committee at the clothing warehouse, and spent the period from 06.04.1910 to 21.05.1919 in the same position, as he was deaf and unfit for service. He was promoted to staff captain on 25.12.1911, and to captain on 07.04.1916 for long service.

On May 21, 1919, he submitted a resignation letter. He was unable to obtain the resignation. He worked in the same commission until the arrival of the Red Army (December 19, 1919). With the arrival of the Reds, he was appointed a member of the same commission.

From 1922 to 2025 he worked as an inspector-auditor, an accountant in a store, served as a worker on the Esminovich dairy farm, at the tobacco factory for disabled people, a carpenter in the disabled artel in Anzherka, the artel was liquidated for embezzlement by the chairman. In August 1925 he returned to Tomsk, remained unemployed. He got a job again as a worker at the Esminovich farmstead. On November 24, 1925, robbers attacked the farmstead. While defending himself, Vasily Petrovich was wounded in the arm, lost the ability to work in his left hand, and underwent surgery. Left without the opportunity to get a job and without a livelihood, he received a free patent for trade as a disabled person. He sold rolls and cookies door-to-door. After the cancellation of the benefit for the disabled, he worked under a paid patent until June 1931, until his arm began to work.

From June 1931 he worked as a carpenter on the Tomsk-Yenisei railway, as a joiner --- was fired as deaf, since he did not receive permission to work on machines. From May 1932 he worked in an office --- as an accountant, assistant accountant, accountant.

He was deprived of his voting rights as a merchant in 1930-1933. His rights were restored on 27.08.1933.

In 1937 he worked as a carpenter in a disabled workers’ cooperative in Tomsk.

On September 26, 1937, he was arrested and accused of participating in the counterrevolutionary organization "Union for the Salvation of Russia." On October 8, 1937, he was sentenced to capital punishment. He was shot on October 15, 1937 in Tomsk. He was rehabilitated on November 12, 1965.