George Ignatieff

Count George Pavlovich Ignatieff, CC (Russian: Георгий Па́влович Игнатьев; 16 December 1913 – 10 August 1989) was a Russian-born Canadian diplomat.

His mother was Princess Natalia Nikolayevna Meshcherskaya and his father was Count Pavel Ignatiev, a close advisor to Tsar Nicholas II serving as his last Minister of Education.

In 1918, the year after the Russian Revolution, Count Ignatieff was imprisoned, but his release was negotiated by sympathetic supporters.

He advocated cautious realignment of Canadian defence policy, and a complete nuclear test ban.

Like his mentor Pearson, Ignatieff believed in the interdependence of nations, and had an acute prescience for the impending threats of terror, economic breakdown, and environmental degradation.