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See also:IGNATIEV, See also:NICHOLAS PAVLOVICH, See also:COUNT (1832-1908) , See also:Russian diplomatist, was See also:born at St See also:Petersburg on the 29th of See also:January 1832. His See also:father, See also:Captain See also:Paul Ignatiev, had been taken into favour by the See also:tsar Nicholas I., owing to his fidelity on the occasion of the military See also:conspiracy in 1825; and the See also:grand See also:duke See also:Alexander (afterwards tsar) stood See also:sponsor at the boy's See also:baptism. At the See also:age of seventeen he became an officer of the See also:Guards. His See also:diplomatic career began at the See also:congress of See also:Paris, after the See also:Crimean See also:War, where he took an active See also:part as military attache in the negotiations regarding the rectification of the Russian frontier on the See also:Lower See also:Danube. Two years later (18.58) he was sent with a small escort on a dangerous See also:mission to See also:Khiva and See also:Bokhara. The See also:khan of Khiva laid a See also:plan for detaining him as a See also:hostage, but he eluded the danger and returned safely, after concluding with the khan of Bokhara a treaty of friendship. His next diplomatic exploit was in the Far See also:East, as plenipotentiary to the See also:court of See also:Peking. When the Chinesg See also:government was terrified by the advance of the Anglo-See also:French expedition of 186o and the burning of the Summer See also:Palace, he worked on their fears so dexterously that he obtained for See also:Russia not only the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Amur, the See also:original See also:object of the mission, but also a large extent of territory and See also:sea-See also:coast See also:south of that See also:river. This success was supposed to prove his capacity for dealing with Orientals, and paved his way to the See also:post of See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople, which he occupied from 1864 till 1877. Here his See also:chief aim was to liberate from See also:Turkish domination and bring under the See also:influence of Russia the See also:Christian nationalities in See also:general and the Bulgarians in particular. His restless activity in this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, mostly of a semi-See also:official and See also:secret See also:character, culminated in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, at the See also:close of which he negotiated with the Turkish plenipotentiaries the treaty of See also:San Stefano. As the war which he had done so much to bring about did not eventually secure for Russia advantages commensurate with the sacrifices involved, he See also:fell into disfavour, and retired from active service. Shortly after the See also:accession of Alexander III. in 1881, he was appointed See also:minister of the interior on the understanding that he would carry out a nationalist, reactionary policy, but his shifty ways and his administrative incapacity so displeased his imperialmaster that he was dismissed in the following See also:year. After that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he exercised no important influence in public affairs. He died on the 3rd of See also:July 1908.
End of Article: IGNATIEV, NICHOLAS PAVLOVICH, COUNT (1832-1908)
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