Aleksei Alekseyevich Ignatyev (1877–1954) was hereditary military officer, diplomat, and memoirist. A colonel in the General Staff of the Tsarist Army, a major general in the Provisional Government, and a lieutenant general (1943) in the Soviet Army. He was the son of the Kyiv governor-general and the grandson of the chairman of the Committee of Ministers of Russia. A page, a cavalry guards officer, and a participant in the Russo-Japanese War; in 1908–1917 he served as a military attaché in the Scandinavian countries and in France. After the October Revolution, he sided with Soviet power, lived in Paris, and helped preserve in French banks 225 million rubles in gold belonging to Russia. In 1937 he returned to Moscow. He was married to the famous ballerina Natasha Trukhanova. Author of the five-volume memoirs “Fifty Years in Service.”