Kirill Borisovich Ilyin (1896-1974)
Graduated from Nizhny Novgorod count Arakcheev Cadet Corps (1913),
Nikolaev Cavalry School (1914) and went to the 2nd Light Hussar Pavlograd
Emperor Alexander III Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division. Participant of
the First World War. After demobilization (1918) - in the White troops of the
Eastern Front, served in the Siberian Army of Admiral A.V. Kolchak before its
dissolution. Lieutenant Colonel (as of 1920).
Then he got to Harbin, China, where he met with his wife,
Olga
Alexandrovna Boratynskaya
and son
Boris
. The family emigrated to
America via Japan in 1924.
Kirill had known Olga Alexandrovna (Lita) since childhood, was engaged in
1916, and they got married in March 1917. In 1918, son Boris was born.
The story of Kirill and Olga is described in her books “Dawn of the Eighth Day”
and “White Road”.
According to the recollections of his son Boris, in San Francisco, Kirill painted
fences to feed his family and got sick with tuberculosis, from which he was
happily cured. He also helped his wife, who opened a fashion salon, in sewing
clothes. Subsequently, he began to successfully work as a real estate agent.
with father Boris Petrovich
At Cadet Corps
As a child, with sister Natalya
With Olga Alexandrovna and son Boris
Artist Gleb Ilyin, oil on canvas
Obituary in a San Francisco newspaper
21-12-74 in USA Leitenant Colonel Kirill Borisovich Ilyin.
The deceased came from the princely family of Rurikovich, after graduating
from the Nizhny Novgorod Count Arakcheev Cadet Corps in 1913 and the
Nikolaev Cavalry School on October 1, 1914, by the highest order he was
promoted to cornet and entered the 2nd Life Hussars Pavlograd EMPEROR
ALEXANDER III regiment, which participated in all battles and campaigns of
the regiment in the 1st Great War. After the regiment was disbanded in
1918, during the period of the Bolshevik seizure of power, it took part in the
white movement in the army of Admiral Kolchak. At the end of the Civil War,
he moved with his family to the United States, where he worked a lot,
continuing to maintain, until the end of his days, loyalty to the convictions of
his past time and a fiery love for the Motherland with a firm belief in its
liberation from the communist yoke.
Kirill Borisovich was a model of honor and nobility, leaving behind the
memory of a valiant, combat officer, of whom the Russian IMPERIAL Army
was proud. Their names are remembered with special gratitude and they are
forever remembered with gratitude.
BORIS
PETROVICH
1868 - 1931
NATALYA
NIKANOROVNA
SHCHERBAKOV
1868- 1953
KIRIL
BORISOVICH
1896 - 1974
BORIS ILYIN
1918 - 2014
DIMITRI KIRIL
ILYIN
1929 - 2013
OLGA
ALEXANDROVNA
BORATYNSKAYA
1894 - 1991
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