Ilya Tatischev

Count Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev (Russian: Илья Леонидович Татищев) (11 December 1859 – July 1918) was a Russian nobleman and Adjutant General to Tsar Nicholas II. He was executed by the Bolsheviks and canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia as a new martyr.

Biography Count Ilya Tatischev was born on 11 December (24), 1859, in Saint-Petersburg. His father was lieutenant general Count Leonid Alekseevich Tatischev (1827–1881),

Together with his brother, Leonid, he owned the village of Protasovo, in the Saransky Uyezd (now Lyambirsky district) Penza Governorate.

Military career Count Illya Tatischev started military service in 1877. In 1879 he entered the Hussar Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard in the rank of cornet. However, on the very same day he was raised to major general and enrolled in the Imperial Suite. In 1916 he was made lieutenant general of the Imperial Cavalry and appointed Adjutant General of Tsar Nicholas II.

Awards

Domestic awards:

Order of Saint Stanislaus: 3rd class (1886), 2nd class (1895), 1st class (1906). Order of Saint Anna: 3rd class (1891), 2nd class (1897), 1st class (1910). Order of Saint Vladimir: 4th class (1900), 3rd class (1903), 2nd class (1913).

Foreign Awards:

Order of the Lion and the Sun, Persia, (1878). Order of the Crown (Württemberg), (1890). Order of the Zähringer Lion, Duchy of Baden, Germany, (1890). Order of the Crown of Italy (1894), 3rd class, commander. Legion of Honour, France, (1894), Chevalier. Order of the Griffon, Mecklenernburg-Schwerin, Germany: Honour Cross (1895), Grand Commander's Cross (1897). Order of the Crown (Prussia), 2nd class (1898), 1st class (1907), 1st class with diamonds (1909). Order of Philip the Magnanimous, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany: Commander's cross (1901), 1st class (1902). Order of the White Eagle, Serbia, 1st class (1915). Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan, 1st class (1915).