Nicholas Ilyin A

Nicholas Ilyin A was a man aged 43, a descendant of the Albazinians. He was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, at Shiyiyuan. The same list also names members of his family: wife Maria; daughter Mavra.

The Albazinians are the descendants of the Russian prisoners from Albazin, brought to Beijing in 1685, with whom the Orthodox community in China began. His name appears in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in the Boxer Rising, published in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China.

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).