Nikolai Ignatev
Russian major general (1872–1962)
Count Nikolai Nikolayevich Ignatev (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Игна́тьев; 1872–1962) was a Russian major general, commander of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, hero of the First World War.
Biography
From the nobles of Tver Governorate. Born in Constantinople, where his father, Nikolai Pavlovich, served as Envoy Extraordinary at the Ottoman Port. Elder brother Paul is the Minister of Education.
He graduated from the Alexander Cadet Corps (1889) and the Page Corps (1891), was released as second lieutenant in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment.
Ranks: Lieutenant (1895), Staff Captain (1900), Captain (1903), Colonel (1910), Aide-adjutant (1912), Major General (for distinction, 1915).
He commanded a company and a battalion of the Preobrazhensky regiment. In 1897, he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. In 1911-1914, he was the senior staff officer of the regiment.
On July 12, 1914, he was appointed commander of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, with which he entered the First World War.
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