Paul von der Pahlen

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Count Paul von der Pahlen, portrait by George Dawe around 1823, military gallery in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage

Paul Karl Ernst Wilhelm Philipp Graf von der Pahlen ( Russian Павел Петрович Пален Pavel Petrovich Pahlen ; born July 14 . Jul / 25. July  1775 greg. In Kautzemünde , † January 28 jul. / 9. February  1834 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian cavalry general .

Life

Origin and family

Paul was a member of a Courland line of the Counts von der Pahlen . His parents were the Russian Foreign Minister and Tsarist assassin Peter von der Pahlen (1745-1826) and Juliane, born op dem Hamme called Schoeppingk (1750-1814). The Russian general of the cavalry Peter von der Pahlen (1777–1864) and the Russian diplomat Friedrich von der Pahlen (1780–1863) were his brothers.

Paul entered into the state of marriage three times. First Maria Countess Skowronska (1782-1807) in 1803, then as a widower in 1808 with Agrafena, divorced Lermontowa, née Oserowa (1791-1810) and finally with Countess Katharina Orlow-Denissowa († 1853). Children:

  • Julia (1803–1875), ⚭ 1825 Count Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Samoilow (1800–1842), captain in the Preobrazhensky body guard regiment
  • Nikolaus (1817–1849), Majorate Lord on Kautzemünde, ⚭ NN Solowjew
  • Katharina (* 1818), ⚭ 1850 Prince Ivan Grigoryevich Grusinsky (1826–1880)
  • Elisabeth (* 1819), ⚭ 1839 Prince Gregor Dadian-Mingrelski (1798–1851), Russian lieutenant
  • Helena (1820–1874), ⚭I Arkadius Boldarew / Boldirew († 1858), Russian major general ; ⚭II 1858, Fyodor Platonowitsch Golubzow (* 1824), Russian chamberlain
  • Olga

Career

From 1782 Pahlen served with the Guard on Horseback in St. Petersburg and in 1790 moved as Rittmeister to the line cavalry. In 1792 he was chief steward and took part in the suppression of the Kościuszko uprising from 1794 to 1795 . In 1796 he was in Transcaucasia , where he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the same year . His rise to colonel in 1798 was followed by major general in 1800, where he also became chief of the "Pahlen II" hussar regiment named after him. Presumably in 1801 he was commander of the Dorat Dragoon Regiment. In December 1806 he went out with the Moldavian Army against the Ottomans . Here he was awarded the Order of St. George IV in 1807 and III in 1810. Class excellent. He was in command of the II. Reiter Division before taking part in the siege of Thorn , the Battle of the Katzbach , the Battle of Leipzig and in 1814 the campaign in France during the Wars of Liberation , where he was promoted to lieutenant general. During the November Uprising he was the commanding general of the II Infantry Corps, which he remained until 1834. The rise to general of the cavalry followed.

From 1827 he was the majority owner of the Kurland estates of Kautzemünde, Aahof, Dsirkaln, Islitz and Esserhof.

Web links

Commons : Pavel Petrovič Pahlen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Notes & individual references

  1. ↑ Baptism date.
  2. ↑ a b Oskar Stavenhagen (edit.): Genealogical Handbook of the Courland Knights , Volume 1, Görlitz 1939, pp. 605-606.
personal data
SURNAME Pahlen, Paul from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pahlen, Paul Carl Ernst Wilhelm Philipp Graf von der (full name with title); Па́лен, Па́вел Петро́вич (Russian); Pahlen, Pavel Petrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian general of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Kautzemünde
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1834
Place of death Moscow