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), his mother was Ekaterina Ilyinichna Bibikova (1836–1916), the daughter of adjutant general and general of the artillery Ilya Gavrilovich Bibikov. His mother was a lady-in-waiting to Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. In 1879 he graduated from the Page Corps.   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. In 1890 he was appointed adjutant to Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich as the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard and Saint-Petersburg Military District. After five years in this rank, in 1895 he received the rank of colonel. Since 11 November 1905, he was appointed the personal adjutant of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. In 1905, the son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, Kirill, was expelled from the Imperial House of Russia due to mismarriage. This caused his father to resign. The new commander, Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich, dismissed Illya Tatischev on 6 December 1905. However, on the very same day he was raised to major general and enrolled in the Imperial Suite.