Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

• Born: 1845
• Died: 1916

Ilya Ilyich was a Russian zoologist and biologist, based in France, who visited Japan c. 1874-1875. He recorded his impressions in a text known in English as "Recollections of the Meiji Restoration."

References

• Amino Yoshihiko, Alan Christy (trans.), Rethinking Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (2012), 124n4.