Ilya Koslov

Ilya Koslov's History

Ilya Koslov is a former KGB intelligence officer and a childhood friend and later lover of Katarina Rostova. Also, Ilya is one of Raymond Reddington's oldest and dearest friends and they seem to know each other since they were children. After Katarina Rostova staged her suicide in Cape May, Ilya helped her disappear. Ilya devised the plan to impersonate Raymond Reddington in order to gain access to the money the Cabal placed in his name to frame him for treason, so they could fund Katarina's new life. A year later, Ilya was called by Katarina Rostova's father Dominic Wilkinson to a meeting at a cafe in Belgrade. Dom told Ilya that his plan with Katarina didn't work and informed him that Katarina's enemies joined forces and formed the Townsend Directive to hunt and kill her. Afraid that the Townsend Directive could harm his granddaughter Masha, Dom enlisted Ilya to help him kill Katarina to calm down the Directive and keep Masha safe. Still in Belgrade, Ilya, following Dom's plan, lured Katarina to an ambush where he and Dom tried to kill Katarina with a car bomb in front of the whole Directive, but they failed and ended up killing her new husband instead. However, this was not the real Katarina but Tatiana Petrova, an asset whom Ilya had worked with and whom Dom and Ilya had set up to truly fake Katarina's death. After that, Ilya went into hiding. He started a family and left the life of espionage and crime behind him, though he still kept in touch with Raymond Reddington.