biography
| name: |
Ignatiev, Nikolay Pavlovich, Count
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pronunciation:
[ignatyef]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1908)
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| biography:
| Russian diplomat, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He entered the diplomatic service (1856), led a mission to C Asia (1858), and negotiated the Treaty of Peking (1860) with China, giving Russia the territory where Vladivostok now stands. He became ambassador at Constantinople (1864), encouraged both the Serbs and the Bulgarians to rebel (unsuccessfully) against the Turks (1876), and was responsible for the Treaty of San Stefano after the Russians defeated the Turks in 1878. Under Alexander III he was minister of the interior (1881), but was dismissed in June 1882. |
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