Count Pavel Alekseevich Ignatiev (1878–1930) - Colonel of the General Staff.
Pavel Alekseevich Ignatiev | |
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Date of Birth | December 18 (30) 1878 |
Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
Date of death | December 2, 1930 (51 year) |
Place of death | Paris |
Affiliation | Russian empire |
He belonged to the old aristocratic family Ignatiev - the son of General A. P. Ignatiev and Princess S. S. Mescherskaya .
He brilliantly graduated from Kiev Lyceum, then studied at St. Petersburg University , where he received a diploma in licentiate of law. He served in the Life Guards Hussars in Tsarskoye Selo, where he passed the exam for an officer’s rank. In 1906 he entered the Academy of the General Staff , which he graduated from as an officer of the General Staff. After the declaration of war, he commanded the 2nd squadron of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment and in this capacity participated in the East Prussian campaign ; then he was appointed assistant chief of staff of the 2nd cavalry division .
Having received serious damage to his leg, he was sent to the headquarters of the Southwestern Front , where he was engaged in counterintelligence issues. In December 1915 he arrived in France to create an intelligence service in the interests of the Russian army [1] . After some time, he returned to St. Petersburg, then returned to Paris as head of the Russian mission at the Inter-Allied Intelligence Bureau at the French Ministry of War. By 1917, powerful and extensive organizations worked for him: Catholic, Masonic, Roman, and Chevalier. Ignatiev was one of the first to report to a bet through closed channels about a “ sealed-up wagon ” and its passengers, which became known to him from informed sources: “Leninists, Poles and Romanians who go to Petrograd to preach peace there” (Ignatieff believed that they are agents of German intelligence, charged up to create chaos in the camp of the enemy, that is, Russia). [2]
The revolutionary events of 1917 in Russia disorganized intelligence work; P. Ignatiev recalled: “I vainly asked for permission to pay agents money ... All secret organizations were unconditionally dissolved, the people given to them scattered, nothing else existed that could be valuable for the common cause.”
He was married to Lewis of Menard, nee Venglovskaya.
Buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve de Bois .
Notes
- ↑ The military attache in Paris was at this time his brother, A. A. Ignatiev .
- ↑ Reports of the head of the Russian mission to the Inter-Allied Section. TSHIDK F. 7. Op. 2. D. 627. L. 41.
Literature
- Curriculum Vitae // My mission in Paris
- Avdeev V. A. , Karpov V. N. The Secret Mission in Paris. Count Ignatiev against German intelligence in 1915-1917 .. - M .: Veche, 2009. - 400 p. - ISBN 978-5-9533-3567-6 .
- Boechin I. French interest // Technique - youth . - 2014. - March-April . - ISSN 0320-331X .
- Volkov S.V. Officers of the Russian Guard
Links
- Ganin A. Favorite women of the Ignatiev brothers. What did they cost Russia? // Motherland - № 3. - 2007.
- Ignatiev, Pavel Alekseevich at Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants