Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-26
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 A.a1 FONTENOY. Some of tke Rcies Played by Count Ignatieff in the Empire Of the Czar.

Count Alexis Ignatieff. who is justly
 described as the real originator of the civil war between the Tarars and the Armenians in Caucasus, and of consequent destruction of life and Nroperty and general chaos in that part of the empire of which he was formerly the universally execrated governor general, must not be con founded with his elder brother, Count Nicholas Ignatieff, the diplomat and statesman who for a time held the \ office of minister of the interior. dur aging the reign of Alexander II and has
 for many years been chief of the great < Pan-Slavist society.
 A Both of tne I3na;ieffs are of the ssmost plcbeian extraction, their father, @Paul Ignatieff, having been born IS Il sserf and sent by his owner to the Narmy as a recruit. Once enrolled, he X was assigned to the imperial guard 5 because o: his huge stature. With #this advantage he combined exception al alertness of mind and soon attract zed the attention of a general, who
 made him his servant (ednschik) and Eventually secured him promotion athrough the several noncommissioned Franks to that of subaltern. During Hthe great insurrectior of 1925 at St.. Petersburg, Capt. Paul lgnatieff hap. pened, through the absence of his chief. to be in command of the senate
 guard, and as such rendered consider Able serv ce to Czar Nicholas by pre- l.sy entine the rebels from entering the N senate house. For this important Hservice Nicholas made Paul Isnateff |aa colonel and promoted him so rapidly %ttat at the beginning of the reign of MAlexander II he was governor gener- Mal of St. Petersburg, and his two Msons, Nicholas and Alexis, holding {Rf gh office, the former in the diplo-
 hnat,c service.
 N An Unsavory Record.
 @ Nicholas became minister to China 23pnd afterwards ambassador at Con- |Setantinople, where, by his eXtraordi
 rary disregard of the truth, he ac- % uired for himself the nickname of
 'the father of lies y and of "Menteur asha" (Liar Pasha), in a capital A2Ehere mendacity is the rule rather Athan the exception. Questioned one
 May by Czar Alexander TIT as to how X8ver in the world he had come to ac- nskuire such an unenviable sObrfquet,
 he count replied, with bow, s.In the ss5pervice of your imperial majesty" Far g4rom being angered thereby, AleXan- aAEer III, although the most truth-loving Spf monarchs, took Nicholas Ignatieff s@:'Om Constantinople and made him M1ninister of the interior and the in- H8 8trument of his reactionary policy. SM he count became his evil genius, xSECntributed more than any one else
 MO alienate the people from their sov- Ss&reign, and sowed the seeds of those a easant disturbances which are now a@s1n progress and which are far and
 R1way the most alarming feature of the gy4ituation in Russia
 @ There are many people at St. Pe' &S4Rsburg who insist that the count was Sfespons ble for the mysterious wreck 1xahg of the imperial train at Borlli, Skear kharkoff, on October IT, 1888. 4A Alexander HI, with his wife and chil- S&ren, had, much to the dismay and
 espite the opposition of Ignatieff, de- ermlned upon progress through the mpire, for the purpose of getting in puch with h's subjects especially 41th the village elders and communal
 bthorities Ignatieff had everything 'AA fear from this, and was interested sa4 preventing any such contact from
 king place. The accident at Bork! short the imperial progress. It bloody lesson, terrible warn x 0g addressed to the czar. and the nor
 4 was that Alexander would better avaSt travel in Russia for the purpose of 4arnlng anything about his domin-
 Ions. Anatol Koni, one of the legal aa1af of the senate and devoted soul '%Nnd body to Ignatieff, investigated the