- Paul Ignatieff
Count (Comte) Paul Nikolaevich Ignatieff ( _ru. Павел Николаевич Игнатьев) (August 1870 – 1945) was the Minister of Education and senior advisor to
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia from 1915-1917.Paul's father Count
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev ,was RussianMinister of the Interior under TsarAlexander III of Russia .Ignatieff married Princess
Natalya Meshcherskaya (1877-1944) inNice, France on April 16, 1903. They would have five children, all boys.As a result of the
Bolshevik Revolution , Ignatieff and his family fled to the West. (Ignatieff was the only top minister of the Tsar to escape execution by the Bolsheviks.) In 1925, the family emigrated toCanada , and settled permanently three years later inUpper Melbourne inQuebec .One of the Ignatieff's sons, George, was a prominent
Canadian diplomat. One of their grandsons,Michael Ignatieff , is an author, former Harvard professor and (as of September 2006) Canadian Member of Parliament.References
*Ignatieff, Michael. "The Russian album". New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1987.
* [http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=2815&FT=yes Count Ignatieff address to the Empire Club of Canada]
* "Countess Ignatieff". "New York Times", 30 Aug 1944: 17.
* [http://www.chez.com/rozanov/genealogy/idxi.html Index with link to Ignatieff genealogical information]
* "Nicholas Ignatieff". "New York Times", 30 Mar 1952: 93.
* [http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=2815&FT=yes Russians in Exile]
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