Platov family
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The Platov family (Russian: Платов) was the name of a Russian noble family of Don Cossacks origin. Descendants of Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov.
Notable members
[edit]- Matvei Platov (1751–1818), was born in Starocherkassk. Was a general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars,[1] upon Alexander I's accession to the throne, he was appointed Ataman of the Don Cossacks. In 1805, he ordered the Cossack capital to be moved from Starocherkassk to a new location, known as Novocherkassk. Count of the Russian Empire in 1812. Platov later accompanied emperor Alexander to London where he was awarded a golden sword and an honorary degree of Low by the University of Oxford (1814).
- Ivan Platov II (born. 1796). Youngest of Matvei Platovs sons. Colonel of Don Cossacks in Napoleonic Wars.
References
[edit]- ^ Mikaberidze, A. The Russian officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars 1792–1815. Savas Beatie, New York, 2005, p.304
External links
[edit]- Platov in Napoleonic wars
- Biography of Platov
- Shumkov, A.A., Ryklis, I.G. List of noble families of the Don Cossacks in alphabetical order. VIRD Publ House, Sankt-Peterburg. 2000, (in Russian)