later moved to Canada. His grandson, George Ignatieff, was born in Russia and became a Canadian diplomat, and his great-grandson, Michael Ignatieff, is an academic and was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2008 to 2011. Other sons of Count Ignatiev included: - General Nikolai Nikolaevich Ignatiev (1872-1962), commander of the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard; - Alexey Nikolaevich Ignatiev (1874-1948), last governor of Kiev under Tsarist rule. In popular culture In the novel Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser, Ignatyev appears as a Russian military staff officer who in 1854 presents a proposal to the Tsar recommending an invasion of British-held India. He reappears as a fomenter of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in the subsequent novel Flashman in the Great Game. In the novels he is a villain: Fraser portrays him as intelligent and refined, but also ruthless, cruel, savage and dangerous. References Further reading External links 1832 births 1908 deaths Diplomats from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Politicians of the Russian Empire Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) People of the Second Opium War Russian monarchists Counts of the Russian Empire Spymasters Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire 19th-century politicians from the Russian Empire Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to China Politicians from Saint Petersburg