Biography and Ignatiev

Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev is an outstanding Russian intelligence officer and diplomat, whose biography is so amazing that she could become a plot for an exciting book or adventurous film. Nikolai Pavlovich was born on January 17 29 in St. Petersburg in a military family. His father was a general and held very high positions: the director of the Page Corps, the General of the General Staff, Governor General of St.

Petersburg, and finally, chairman of the Committee of Ministers. Nikolai Pavlovich received education in a Page Corps, then at the Academy of the General Staff. He began his career for the diplomat during the Paris Congress G. Despite his youth, Ignatiev was only 24 years old, he managed to defend part of the Russian territory during these complex negotiations. В том же году Игнатьев был назначен в русское посольство в Лондон.

Formally, for studying the history of the foreign policy of the British Empire, and in fact, for collecting information about the latest English achievements in artillery and engineering, as well as to study British policy in Europe and Asia. He was given the task of studying the internal position in these khanates and most importantly to counteract English influence.

It was not possible to conclude agreements with the Khiva Khanate, and in the Bukhara Khanate Nikolai Pavlovich was accompanied by luck: from the Bukhara Khanate, agents of English intelligence were sent, whom Nikolai Petrovich had known since the mission in London, and also concluded a trading agreement for Russian merchants, allowing the Russian courts to swim in the Amurli.

Ignatiev also achieved the liberation of Russian people in slavery. After Bukhara was China. At that time, China waged a very difficult second opium war with the British Empire and France, and led it very unsuccessfully. There was a danger that China would become a colony of these Western countries. And this meant that the extended and formally uncertain Russian-Chinese border will become the border with the French or British zones of influence.

There could be a situation in which Britain would be quite capable of teasing Russian territories actually from Russia. Ignatieva is sent to China with the task of ensuring the ratification of the previously signed Aigun Treaty and prepare a new agreement on the delimitation of territories between Russia and China. Negotiations went hard. The Chinese Bogdykhan refused to ratify the contract and did not want to conclude any new contract.

Then Ignatiev begins a very risky diplomatic game. Having assured the Chinese side in that he was returning to Russia, Ignatiev went to the Pacific coast, where he arrives in the Russian warship to the location of the Franco-British troops. Supplying them with fresh information about Chinese affairs, Ignatiev tried in every possible way to strengthen the Anglo-French contradictions, convincing them in his completely selflessness, and that all Russian-Chinese contradictions were eliminated and the Russian-Chinese border was determined.

The war of the Western powers continued, and the Allied army was under Beijing. Together with the Anglo-French troops, Ignatiev was also there. And here, under the current conditions, the Chinese government turns to the count with a request for mediation in the conclusion of the world. Ignatiev agreed. The world was concluded, the Anglo-French troops were removed from Chinese territory.

In gratitude for this, China ratified the Aigun Treaty, and also on November 24, the Beijing Treaty was concluded, according to which the territories between China and Russia along the banks of the Amur and Ussuri rivers were delimited. After returning from China, Ignatiev was appointed director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire, but quickly left this post: Count Gorchakov, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, offered Ignatiev the post of ambassador in Istanbul Constantinople, and Nikolai Pavlovich, who did not like the “cabinet work”, happily agreed.

In this post, Ignatiev worked for a year. He saw his main task in the abolition of the restrictions imposed on Russia by the Paris treatise, and for this, Ignatiev considered it necessary to facilitate the Slavic peoples in every way in achieving independence from the Ottoman Empire. Николаю Павловичу удалось наладить агентурную деятельность: он создал целую сеть информаторов, в которую входили как христиане, подданные турецкого султана, так мусульмане, турецкие чиновники.

From them he received information about both the situation in the country and the situation in the Turkish government. The work of the Russian ambassador in Constantinople was very difficult. It was a time when the process of reviving the statehood of the Balkan Slavs was going on, to whom Ignatiev contributed in every possible way. Before the start of the Russo-Turkish war, he visited the European capitals Tira Berlin, Paris, London, Vienna Tire in order to achieve the neutrality of these countries, but did not achieve serious results.

During the Russo-Turkish war, Nikolai Pavlovich was in the retinue of Emperor Alexander II. It was he who, as a special authorized person, conducted peace negotiations with Turkey.Their result was the conclusion of the San Stephanes Peace Treaty, which worthy of Russia completed this war. The rapid take -off of the career of Count Ignatiev and its equally rapid sunset came in the first years of the reign of Alexander III.

The young emperor, who entered the throne after the murder of his father, Alexander II, by the people of the people, invited the most popular statesmen to his government. Count Ignatiev was first appointed Minister of State Property, and then the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire. Having become a minister, Nikolai Pavlovich suggested that the emperor simultaneously call the Zemstvo Cathedral.

The establishment of the Zemstvo Cathedral, composed of representatives of all classes of the population and all the nationalities inhabiting Russia, was the cherished dream of Nikolai Pavlovich. Moreover, it was assumed that this would be an advisory body that retains absolute autocracy into inviolability. With the help of the Zemstvo Cathedral, Ignatiev intended to achieve consent in a society “infected” with revolutionary and liberal ideas.

Ignatiev, presenting the sovereign note about the Zemstvo Cathedral, insisted on an urgent announcement of this institution on May 6 on the fact that on May 6 the last of the Zemstvo cathedrals was opened in Rus'. The last years of his life, Ignatiev was in an honorary but inactive position of a member of the State Council.

No longer having the opportunity to influence the general direction of the country's policy, he tried to influence the nature of individual bills. In the city of Ignatiev, he headed the commission, which was engaged in the development of the project "Regulation on Management" by the Turkestan region. In the summer, G. Ignatiev persistently asked the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich to speed up the construction of the Amur Railway, connecting Chita and Khabarovsk.

” Many of his performances received negative reviews. Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev died on June 20 on July 3, when the new historical era was already on the verge. Six years remained before World War I, and nine before the Great October Socialist Revolution.