In Popular Culture
In the novel Flashman at the Charge Ignatiev appears as a twenty-something Russian military officer and schemer who wishes to encourage the Tsar to launch an invasion of British-held India. Flashman's physical and character descriptions of Ignatief are not flattering.
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