Plato Alexandrovich Subov

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Platon Alexandrowitsch Subow, portrait by Johann Lebrecht Eggink

Plato Alexandrowitsch Subow ( Russian: Платон Александрович Зубов ; * November 4, July / November 15,  1767 greg. , † March 26, July / April 7,  1822, greg. At Ruhenthal Castle in Courland ) was a Russian politician .

Life

He was a member of the Russian noble family Subow. His parents were the Russian lieutenant colonel and vice provincial governor Alexander Subow (1727-1795) and Elisaveta Wassiliewna Voronow (1742-1813).

As a lieutenant in the cavalry guard, he became a favorite of Tsarina Catherine II. During this time, Nikolai Petrovich Resanov was one of his staff. Giacomo Quarenghi redesigned the garden facade of the Subow wing named after him in the Katharinenpark in a classical style.

Subov advanced to the rank of colonel in the army and in 1789 became a wing adjutant , then general field master , adjutant general and finally chief of the Chevalier Guard .

He was a senator and governor general of Yekaterinoslav .

He received great honors. Subow was a knight of the Black Eagle Order and the Order of St. Andrew . Together with his father and his brothers, the Russian General majors he was the emperor Valerian 1793 (1771-1804), Nikolai (1763-1805) and Dmitri (1764-1836) Francis II. In the imperial counts charged. With the brothers he was also included in the Estonian and Livonian nobility registers in 1795 . Subov was also a knight of the Order of St. Vladimir , the Alexander Nevsky Order of the Order of Saint Anne , the Order of the White Eagle , the Order of Saint Stanislaus and the Order of the Red Eagle . He owned extensive estates, including the parks of Žagarė and Raudonė in the Lithuania-Vilnius governorate .

Subov was considered a man of low moral integrity and great ambition. Due to his privileged position at the court of the tsarina, he repeatedly used his domestic and foreign political influence to his own advantage. He was one of the conspirators around Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen and was directly and significantly involved in the murder of Paul I in 1801.

He was married to Thekla Ignatiewna Valentinowitsch (1801–1873) and had a son Alexander (1822–1824) who died young. She married as a widow in a second marriage with Count Andrei Petrowitsch Schuwalow (1802-1883), Russian high court marshal and knight of the Alexander Nevsky Order .

literature

  • Arthur Kleinschmidt : Russia's history and politics depicted in the history of the Russian high nobility (Elibron Classics). Adamant Media, Chesnut Hill, Ma 2005, ISBN 0-543-93507-8 (unchanged reprint of the Kay publisher, Kassel 1877 edition) pp. 282-292 (pdf).

Web links

Commons : Platon Zubov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otto Magnus von Stackelberg : Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Bd .: 3, Görlitz [1930], p. 295
  2. ^ Nicolai von Essen: Genealogical manual of the Oeselschen Ritterschaft , Tartu 1935, p. 586
personal data
SURNAME Subov, Plato Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зубов, Платон Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1767
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1822
Place of death Courland