Painter, graphic artist Biographical details are scarce. Studied at MUZHVZ volnoslushayuschego as a student at AE Arkhipov, NA Kasatkin, then in the Superior Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at IAH (1897-1901). In 1901, he received the title of the artist's painting "The fatal exit». lived in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). He worked in the field of genre painting. From 1895 - participant of exhibitions. Exhibited his work at exhibitions TPHV (1900-1917, with interruptions). After the revolution of 1917 he taught drawing and painting bases in secondary schools and colleges of Leningrad. Participated in XXVI exhibition of the Society of Artists in Petrograd (1918), First Kozmodemyansk exhibition of paintings, sketches, sketches, drawings (1920). Works Ignatieff are a number of museums and private collections, among them - Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum.