O blessed Basil! You, having ascended to the height of virtues, have come closer to God, and like a bright star, having shone with your life, you have enlightened our whole country, and having left your parental love, you have loved the One Glorious God in the Trinity, and having followed Him with an irrevocable desire, and having chosen to live as a fool according to the Apostle, peace You didn’t regard this red thing as anything. We pray to you, most blessed Vasily: pray to the Master Christ our God, and ask through your prayers for our most pious, autocratic, great sovereign, Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich of all Russia, and for the entire reigning house, health and salvation, and victories in all languages, wars they desire. To the Most Holy Governing Synod, and to the Most Reverend Lord of our name, to all the Most Reverend Metropolitan, Archbishop and Bishop, Archimandrite and Abbot, and to the entire sacred and monastic rank, ask for mental and physical health, and for the reign of our city, and for this city, and for this holy monastery, approval, and peace to all the world.
Also, keep our immaculate faith with your prayers, deliver us from famine and destruction and save us from the attacks of foreigners, comfort the old, guide the young, wise the foolish, have mercy on widows and orphans, raise babies, and save this people who create your holy memory from all troubles and misfortunes. And grant us sinners, on the day of judgment, to the right hand of the Son of God, with your holy prayers to the Savior and His Most Pure Mother, our Most Blessed Lady Theotokos, from all generations blessed now and ever and unto the ages of ages.