Paul Ignatieff

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Count (Comte) Paul Nikolaevich Ignatieff (Russian: 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 Russian Minister of the Interior under Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

Ignatieff married Princess Natalya Meshcherskaya (1877-1944) in Nice, 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 to Canada, and settled permanently three years later in Upper Melbourne in Quebec.

One of the Ignatieff's sons, George, was a prominent Canadian diplomat. One of their grandsons, Michael Ignatieff, is an author, Harvard professor and (as of September 2006) Canadian Member of Parliament.

[edit] References

• Ignatieff, Michael. The Russian album. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1987.
• Count Ignatieff address to the Empire Club of Canada
• "Countess Ignatieff". New York Times, 30 Aug 1944: 17.
• Index with link to Ignatieff genealogical information
• "Nicholas Ignatieff". New York Times, 30 Mar 1952: 93.
• Russians in Exile

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Russian Minister of Education 1915-1917

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