Count Pavel Petrovich Palen ( German: Paul Carl Ernst Wilhelm Philipp Graf von der Pahlen , 1775-1834) - cavalry general and adjutant general of the Russian imperial army . During the Patriotic War of 1812 he commanded the cavalry corps.
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 Portrait of Pavel Petrovich Palen [1] from the Military Gallery , workshop work [2] J. Dow | |||||||||
| Date of Birth | July 7, 1775 | ||||||||
| Date of death | February 9, 1834 (58 years old) | ||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||||
| Type of army | Cavalry | ||||||||
| Years of service | 1790-1834 | ||||||||
| Rank | cavalry general | ||||||||
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Biography
Born July 7, 1775 in the Ostseen Baronial family of Palen . The eldest son of Peter Alekseevich Palen , later St. Petersburg governor. Brother of Peter and Fedor Palenov .
At the age of twelve, he was enlisted in the Equestrian Life Guards Regiment , from where on January 1, 1790 he was released to the Orenburg Dragoon Regiment with the rank of captain [3] .
In 1793, Palen was transferred to the Moscow Carabinieri Regiment as Prime Major and with this regiment took part in the Polish events of 1794 and the campaign against the Persians [3] .
From November 12, 1797, Palen continued serving in His Majesty’s Cuirassier Life Guards Regiment , where on July 28, 1798 he was promoted to colonel , and on March 11, 1800 he received the rank of Major General .
Since September 14, 1800 he held the post of chief of the Izyumsky hussar regiment . As the son of the main participant in the palace coup, "dismissed from service for the disease" July 28, 1803.
However, the disgrace that befell the father had little effect on the fate of his son. He remained in the service at the head of the Sumy hussar regiment with which he took part in the war of the fourth coalition [3] . On August 30, 1808, Palen was approved as the chief of the Derpt Dragoon Regiment . For the valor shown during the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812. , repeatedly awarded various awards.
After Napoleon's invasion of the Russian Empire, Palen took part in a number of battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 , and after the expulsion of the enemy from Russia, he took part in the foreign campaign of the Russian army . December 20, 1815 was awarded the epaulette of the lieutenant general
Pavel Petrovich von der Palen died on February 9, 1834 and was buried in Moscow at the Single Belief Cemetery on the Vvedensky Mountains.
He was awarded the orders of Alexander Nevsky , St. Vladimir , 2nd century, St. Anna , 1st century. with diamonds, St. George of the 3rd class., St. Vladimir of the 3rd class, St. George of the 4th class, St. John of Jerusalem ; Prussian Red Eagle 2nd Art. He also had a gold sword “for courage” with diamonds.
Family
The first wife (from 1800 to 1804) was Countess Maria Pavlovna Skavronskaya (1782-1857), daughter of P. M. Skavronsky . The marriage ended in divorce. There was a daughter in marriage:
- Julia Pavlovna (1803-1875), in her first marriage, married to Count N. A. Samoilov .
The second wife is Agrafena Ivanovna Lermontova , nee. Ozerov (1791–07.10.1810), sister of Senator P.I. Ozerov ; in her first marriage, she was behind Ivan Yuryevich Lermontov, whom she divorced in 1809 because she had been given “married in infancy by the compulsion of her father”. She died soon after the wedding.
The third wife (since 1816) was Ekaterina Vasilievna Orlova (179? -1853), the daughter of the chieftain V.P. Orlov and the sister of General V.V. Orlov-Denisov . Since August 22, 1826, the cavalier lady of the Order of St. Catherine (the Small Cross). According to a contemporary, “Countess Palen’s house was distinguished by hospitality and kind society. She herself was personified kindness, well-mannered, without memory she loved her native Don and everything that bore the name of a Cossack. She liked to listen to readings of the history of the Cossacks and the singing of Cossack thoughts, which the Cossacks sing while playing along with the Theorbas. ” She was buried in the village of Blagie Ranenburgsky district . Their kids:
- Nikolai Pavlovich (1817-1849)
- Ekaterina Pavlovna (1818-18?), Since 1850 married to Prince Ivan Grigoryevich Gruzinsky (1826-1880).
- Elizaveta Pavlovna (1819-18?), Since 1839 married to sv. Prince G. G. Dadian-Mingrelsky (1798-1851).
- Elena Pavlovna (1820-23.08.1874), in her first marriage to Major General Arkady Afrikanovich Boldyrev (d. 1858); in the second since 1858, behind chamberlain Fyodor Platonovich Golubtsov (1824-18?). Died of a stroke and heart disease in Florence, buried in Ryazan [5] .
- Olga Pavlovna
Notes
- ↑ Formerly considered a portrait of Pyotr Petrovich Palen.
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. Western European painting. Catalog / Ed. V. F. Levinson-Lessing; ed. A. E. Krol , K. M. Semenova. - 2nd edition, revised and supplemented. - L .: Art, 1981. - T. 2. - P. 259, cat. No 7909. - 360 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Palen, von der // Military Encyclopedia : [in 18 vol.] / Ed. V.F. Novitsky [et al.]. - SPb. ; [ M. ]: Type. t-va I. D. Sytin , 1911-1915.
- ↑ Russian Old Man. - Volume 86. - 1896. - Issues 4-6. - S. 168.
- ↑ TsGIA SPb. f.19. Op. 123. d.30. with. 110.
Literature
- A.N. Petrov. Palen, von der, Pavel Petrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Dictionary of Russian generals, participants in the hostilities against the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1812-1815. // Russian archive. The history of the Fatherland in the evidence and documents of the XVIII — XX centuries. : Collection. - M .: TRITE studio N. Mikhalkova , 1996. - T. VII . - S. 505-506 . - ISSN 0869-20011 . (Comm. A. A. Podmazo )