Studio portrait of Count Nikolai P. Ignatyev with his wife Countess Ekaterina L. Ignatyeva and their son Count Leopold N. Ignatyev

Full length shot of a group of three people: an elderly man in military uniform with insignia of honour and sword, holding gloves is seated on a chair, resting his right hand on a small table with a hat with a cockade on it. Behind him there is a woman standing in light urban clothes, and next to her there is a man in military uniform. Painted canvas backdrop.Count Nikolai Ignatyev (1832 - 1908) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, Ambassador to Constantinople (Istanbul) from 1864 to 1877; active member in negotiations with the Ottoman plenipotentiaries on the Treaty of San Stefano after the Russo-Ottoman War in 1877 - 1878