IGNATIEV, NICHOLAS PAVLOVICH, COUNT (183 2 1908), Russian diplomatist, was born at St. Petersburg (Lenin grad) on Jan. 29, 1832. At 17 he became an officer of the Guards. His diplomatic career began at the Congress of Paris, after the Crimean War, where he took an active part as military attaché in the negotiations regarding the rectification of the Russian frontier on the Lower Danube. Two years later (1858) he was sent with a small escort on a dangerous mission to Khiva and Bokhara. The khan of Khiva laid a plan for detaining him as a hostage, but he returned safely, after concluding with the khan of Bokhara a treaty of friendship. He was Russian envoy at Peking when the Chinese Government was terrified by the advance of the Anglo-French expedition of 186o and the burning of the Summer Palace; he used the occasion to secure for Russia not only the left bank of the Amur, the original object of the mission, but also a large extent of territory and sea-coast south of that river. Ignatiev was ambassador at Constantinople from 1864 till 1877. Here his chief aim was to liberate from Turkish domination and bring under the influence of Russia the Christian nationalities in general and the Bulgarians in particular. His diplomacy led up to the Russo-Turkish war of 18 7 at the close of which he negotiated with the Turkish plenipotentiaries the treaty of San Stefano. Ignatiev then retired in semi-disgrace. After the ac cession of Alexander III. in 188i, he was appointed minister of the interior to carry out a nationalist, reactionary policy, but was dismissed in 1882. He died on July 3, 1908.