Moscow in the life of Ivan Alexandrovich and Mikhail Andreevich Ilyin

The article is devoted to the inextricable connection with Moscow of several generations of the Ilyin dynasty. Moscow has become a symbol of the motherland for two prominent Russian scientists – representatives of an ancient noble family. The outstanding philosopher and patriot-exile Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin always remembered his Alma Mater and bequeathed his personal archive to Moscow University, where it was returned in 2006. Among more than 70 thousand sheets of manuscripts, scientific papers, letters, photographs, there was an academic badge of a university graduate, which the scientist treasured very much. The image of his native Moscow is also captured in the ex-libris of I.A. Ilyin, found on books from his library. Mikhail Andreevich Ilyin, a prominent art historian, was formed on the deep foundation of the noble culture of his ancestors during the Soviet period, whose research and educational activities took place within the walls of Moscow State University. Among the works of the scientist, a particularly important place belongs to the vast topic of Moscow architecture and closely related Moscow region architecture. He introduced many valuable monuments and sources into science, and for the first time comprehended many of them. Mikhail Andreevich found eternal rest in the columbarium of the Vagankovsky Cemetery in Moscow, where the Ilyins' family burial has been preserved. In 2005, he returned to his homeland and now rests in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery the ashes of Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin.