and his wife were convoyed from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg, Ilya Tatischev stayed in Tobolsk with their children as wished the empress. In May 1918, alongside the royal children, he was convoyed to Yekaterinburg, where together with Vasily Dolgorukov, he was kept in prison. According to the witnesses, the two men were shot down by the Bolsheviks 10 days before the Imperial family. It is said that their bodies were found by nuns of the Novo-Tikhvinsky convent and buried at the Ivanopsvkoe cemetery. Canonization In October 1981, Count Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia as a new martyr under the name of Holy Martyr Warrior Illya (Russian: Святой Мученик Воин Илья). 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). See also Tatischev family Vasily Dolgorukov Anastasia Hendrikova References Rurikids Russian saints 1859 births 1918 deaths Imperial Russian Army generals Russian military personnel of World War I Counts of the Russian Empire Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Executed Russian people People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia