Maria

Maria was a woman aged 42, wife of Nicholas Ilyin A. She was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, at Shiyiyuan.

The Albazinians are the descendants of the Russian prisoners from Albazin, brought to Beijing in 1685, with whom the Orthodox community in China began. Her name stands in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in 1900, drawn up in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China, on the testimony of relatives, neighbours and witnesses. The sources give no further details about her.

In 1902 the Holy Synod of the Russian Church allowed the local veneration of the Chinese martyrs, and in 2016 its Council of Bishops blessed their veneration throughout the Russian Church. They are commemorated together on 11 June (old style).