Peter Graf von der Pahlen

For other members of this family, see Pahlen family.

Peter Johann Christoph Graf[a] von der Pahlen (Russian: Пётр Петрович Пален, romanized: Pyotr Petrovich Palen; 11 September [O.S. 31 August] 1778, Kauzmünde Manor, Kauzmünde (now Saulaine) – 1 May [O.S. 19 April] 1864, St. Petersburg) was a Baltic German aristocrat and a general of the Imperial Russian Army.

Life

Peter was born into the Baltic German noble Pahlen family. His family had a baronetcy until Emperor Alexander I of Russia bestowed Peter's father, Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, with the title count for him and his sons. who was an organiser of the assassination of the tsar. Peter's brother was Russian diplomat Friedrich Alexander von der Pahlen.

Joining the army at an early age, Palen in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and in 1800 to Major General.

Highly decorated for his command in the Polish campaign of the Napoleonic Wars (1806–1807). He fought against Napoleon in the Battle of Vitebsk (1812), in 1813 fought at the major Battle of Leipzig. Having retired from service in 1823, he was recalled to the army in 1828 for the Russo-Turkish War, he also was a high-ranking Russian commander during the subsequent November Uprising, and notably the Battle of Warsaw (1831).

Pahlen also served as Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of France from March 11, 1835, to April 8, 1841.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.

References

  1. ^ Vitaliy Solovyev. "France (Residence in Paris)" (in Russian). Retrieved January 30, 2011.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Пален, Петр Петрович" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.

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