Sophia Ignatieva

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Countess Sophia Ignatyeva

Born	1850
Died	1944 Paris
Spouse	Count Alexey Ignatyev
Parents	Maria Apraksina, Sergey Meshcherskiy

Countess Sophia Sergeyevna Ignatieva (Russian: Софья Сергеевна Игнатьева, born as Princess Meshcherskaya (княжна Мещерская)) was the child of Prince Vladimir Meshchersky's first cousin. Countess Sophia had eight houses in Petrograd and was a landowner of Rzhev uyezd. Playing an important role in clerical circles, she reportedly was an adherent of Bishop Hermogenes and priest Heliodorus, being an opponent of Grigori Rasputin.^[1]