Paul Ignatieff
Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev Павел Николаевич Игнатьев | |
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| 24th Education Minister of the Russian Empire | |
| In office January 9, 1915 – December 27, 1916 | |
| Preceded by | Lev Kasso |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Kulchitskiy |
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| Born | July 12 [O.S. June 30] 1870 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | August 12, 1945 (aged 75) Upper Melbourne, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Russian |
Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev (Russian: Павел Николаевич Игнатьев, sometimes rendered in English as Paul Ignatieff) (August 1870 – 1945) was an Imperial Russian Politician.
Pavel'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.
He was a graduate of the University of Kiev. Afterward he entered the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture eventually becoming a Director of one of its departments in 1909. He was appointed Assistant Minister of Agriculture in 1912. In 1915, during the First World War he was appointed Minister of Education. He held that position until 1916.
As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ignatieff and his family fled to France. 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 his grandsons, Michael Ignatieff, is an author, former Harvard professor, a Canadian Member of Parliament since 2006 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada since May 2009.
References
- Ignatieff, Michael. The Russian album. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1987.
- "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.
- Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov Edited by H.H. Fisher and translated by Laura Matveev; Stanford University Press, 1935.
- The Memoirs of Count Witte Edited and translated by Sydney Harcave; Sharpe Press, 1990.