Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23
BY HAND OF ASSASSIN
Count Alexis Ignatieff Shot
Down in Tver, Russia.
MURDERER TRIES SUICIDE
Nobleman Killed in Hall of a Re-
freshment Room.
HAD A BRILLIANT CAREER
His Report to the Gear on Conditions
in Empire Instrumental in Con-
vocation of First Parliament.


Alexis Ignatieff, member of the council
of the empire and ex-governor general of
kiev, Volhyna and Podolia, was shot and
killed by unknown man here today in
the refreshment room of the hall occupied
by the mobiles assembly. The assassin fired
six bullets from revolver into his victim
body. and then tried to commit suicide, but
was seized before he could do SO, and is
now in custody of the police
AT the moment of The assassination Count
Ignateff was sitting with other members of
the zemstvo in the refreshment room. The
zemstVo meets in the mobiles assembly hall.
Suddenly young man who had been sit
ting apart approached the count and
emptied the contents of a revolver at him.
All the shots took effect, one piercing his
heart, and the count died almost instantly.
The murderer, followed by some members
of the zemstvo, fled to an adjoining room,
where he turned his revolver, two cham
bers of which he had reloaded, toward his
own breast One shot missed his body en-
urely, and the other pierced his shoulder.
He was then seized, and at the moment his
pursuers laid hold OF him, he shouted out:
Il did what came here to do!''
A card of admission to the zemstvo bear
ing the name of Kulikoff, was found in the
assaSsin's pocket. Ills appearance is that
of workingman.
Count Ignatieff's Career.
Gen. Count Alexis Pavolich Ignatieff was
born in 1S42, and after completing the usual
course in the corps of pages. entered a
regiment of Hussars of the Guard. In 1863
he was appointed commander of the regi-
ment of Chevaler Guards the most coveted
post in the Russian army, and in 1881 he
became chief of staff of the guard corps.
Count Ignatieff entered the administrative
service in 1885 governor general of lr
kutsk and in 1889 was appointed governor
n iay- MI inh ha ha1d
until 1897.
On Important Mission.
AS a result of the disorders which occur
red throughout Russia after Red Sunday
January q, 1905, Ignatieff was sent by the
emperor to investigate the situation in
southern Russia, and his report on the i'm
mediate necessity for granting reforms was
one of the chief reasons which induced the
emperor to proclaim the first Russian par
lament
During the debates preceding the adop-
ton of the parliamentary law of August u,
1903, Ignatieff advocated the granting of
large measure of power to parliament but
it appears that the success of the repres-
sive measures following the Moscow revolt
changed his opinion, for he became the ac-
tive coadjutor of Gen. Trepoff in support
ing the repressive policy of Minister of the
Interior Durnovo and in the intrigue which
resulted in the downfall of Count White. 1t
was SAID at the time tndl the plan was TO
proclaim Ignatieff premier and dictator. turn
the guard regiments against parliament and
apply the iron rule which Trepof, Ignatieff
and their collea CUES considered to be neces-
sary to govern Russia.
Son of Famous Man.
The late count was one of two sons of
the famous first Count Ignateff, who from
soldier in the ranks of the Imperial
Guard rose to be president of the committee
of ministers, governor general of st. Peters
burg and founder of one of the richest fami-
lies in Russia. According to the story told
of the rise to power of the first Count Igna-
tiff the emperor, attracted by the unusual
stature and soldiery bearing of the young
private guard at the entrance of the
imperial apartments, selected him for pro-
motion, and finding him to be intelligent,
jealous and devoted. advanced the young
soldier from one post to another until he
became a count of the Russian empire.
The elder brother of Count Alexis, Count
Nicholas, a noted diplomat and former min
lister of the interior, inherited large part
of his fathers shrewdness and energy, but
Alexis was chiefly distinguished for his I'M
compromising devotion to the old, auto
cratic ideals of Russia and an avarice
which found expression in his occupying
small rented fiat in order that he might
rent the half dozen or more splendid resi-
dences belonging to him in the Russian
capital.