Count Alexei Pavlovich Ignatiev () was a
Russian
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political figure. His brother
Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev
Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (; – ) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who is best known for his policy of aggressive expansionism as the Russian ambassador to China and the Ottoman Empire. He was also the minister of the interi ...
was Chairman of the Committee of Ministers between 1872 and 1880.
On December 14, 1905, the
''New York Times'' reported rumors, circulating in
St. Petersburg
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, that he was arrested on suspicion of fomenting rebellion against the czar.
Ignatiev was shot to death by members of the
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
The Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR; ,, ) was a major socialist political party in the late Russian Empire, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Soviet Russia. The party members were known as Esers ().
The SRs were ag ...
in 1906.
Main military offices
*Commander of the
2nd Her Majesty Courland Leib Uhlan Regiment (from 1871)
*Commander of the 1st Brigade of the
1st Cavalry Guards Division (from 1874)
*
Major-General (from 1875)
*Head of the Guards Corps Staff (from 1881)
*Cavalry General (from 1896)
References
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Nobility from the Russian Empire
Imperial Russian Army generals
Politicians from the Russian Empire
Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
1842 births
1906 deaths
People from Tver
Russian monarchists
Governors-general of Kiev
Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery