Information technology and history: Personal Archive of the philosopher Ivan Ilyin will be digitized

In 2015, the archive of the philosopher Ivan Ilyin, consisting of 100 boxes of books and manuscripts, will be digitized. The readers Scientific Library of the Moscow State University will have access to 27 thousand pages of archival materials.

In 2006, the Moscow State University recieved 12 boxes of books from the personal library of the philosopher, as well as 88 manuscripts, letters and photographs.

Ivan Ilyin (1882-1954) is Russian philosopher, writer and publicist. Since 1966, Ilyin’s archive was sited in the Michigan University. The philosopher left by will to keep his archive there as long as Russia does not end up with the Bolshevik regime. In 2006, the archivist of the University of Michigan, a follower Ilyin handed it to Russia.

In 2005, the remains of Ilyin were reburied in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.