Dmitry Sergeyevich Ilyin ( 1737 - 1802 ) - officer of the Russian Navy, captain of the 1st rank (1777), hero of the Chesmensky sea battle (1770). Ancestor of the famous Russian revolutionary Raskolnikov [1] .
| Dmitry Sergeevich Ilyin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1737 |
| Place of Birth | Vesyegonsk district , Tver province (now Forest district (Tver region) ) |
| Date of death | July 19 (31), 1802 |
| Place of death | Vesyegonsk district , Tver province (now Forest district (Tver region) ) |
| Affiliation |  Russian imperial fleet |
| Type of army | Navy |
| Years of service | 1764-1777 |
| Rank | 1st rank captain |
| Commanded | bombing ship "Lightning" |
| Battles / wars | Chesme battle |
| Awards and prizes |  |
Biography
Came from a poor old noble family of the Ilyins . He graduated from the naval corps with the rank of midshipman in 1764. Member of the First Archipelago Expedition of 1769−1774 .
June 26 ( July 7 ), 1770, commanding a firewall , set fire to a Turkish battleship. As a result of the outbreak of fire, the Turkish fleet located in Chesmenskaya Bay was destroyed. For this feat, D. S. Ilyin was awarded the Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George IV class.
From 1771 to 1773, commanding the Lightning bombing ship , he participated in shelling of Turkish fortresses in the Mediterranean Sea .
In 1774, due to health reasons, he was sent to St. Petersburg for further service and was assigned to the St. Petersburg ship crew.
In 1777, he was dismissed in the rank of captain of the 1st rank. He died in his estate Demidikha, was buried at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Zastizhye of the Vesyegonsky district of the Tver province .
Memory
In 1895, at the behest of Emperor Alexander III, in honor of the 125th anniversary of the Chesme victory in the grave of D. S. Ilyin, a monument was erected in the village of Zastizhye (now part of the Forest District of the Tver Region). Partially destroyed in the 1920s, the monument to Lieutenant Ilyin was restored in 2002-2003 [2] .
The ships of the Baltic Fleet were named after D. S. Ilyin: a mine cruiser (1887–1907) and a destroyer (1916–1919) . In 2000, the base minesweeper BT-40 ( Black Sea Fleet ) was renamed “Lieutenant Ilyin” [3] .
On June 21, 2005, by the decision of the Tver City Council No. 67, one of the streets of the city of Tver was named after Lieutenant Ilyin [4] .
The feat of D. S. Ilyin is dedicated to the historical miniature of V. S. Pikul “Lieutenant Ilyin was”.
Literature
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., M., 1978.
- State Archive of the Tver Region (GATO) F. 645 D. 6956.
- GATO F. 645 Op. 1 D. 1562.
- Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) F. 496 Op. 3 D. 729 ll 1.27.40 vol.
- Bondarenko V.V. 100 great feats of Russia. Moscow, 2011.
Notes
- ↑ F.F. Raskolnikov. 1913 Autobiography
- ↑ Monument to Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin in the village of Zastizhye on the website welcometver.ru Archived September 11, 2016 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Base minesweeper "BT-40" ("Lieutenant Ilyin") on the site "Black Sea Fleet"
- ↑ The text of the decision of the Tver City Council on the name of the street Ilyin
Links
- Ilyin, Dmitry Sergeevich at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants
- We honor the memory of the hero of Chesma D. S. Ilyin