Peter Johann Christoph Graf
von der Pahlen (russian: Пётр Петрович Пален, translit=Pyotr Petrovich Palen; ,
Kauzmünde Manor, Kauzmünde (now ) - ,
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) was a
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...
aristocrat and a general of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
.
Life
Peter was born into the
Baltic German noble Pahlen family. His family had a baronetcy until Emperor
Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I (; – ) was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first King of Congress Poland from 1815, and the Grand Duke of Finland from 1809 to his death. He was the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.
The son of ...
bestowed Peter's father,
Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
Peter Ludwig Graf von der Pahlen (russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Па́лен, translit= Pyotr Alekseyevich Palen; , Palms Manor, Palms (now ) – , Mitau (now )), a Baltic-German courtier and general, played a pivotal role in the as ...
, 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 retired from service in 1823. Recalled to the army in 1828 for the
Russo-Turkish War
The Russo-Turkish wars (or Ottoman–Russian wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European histo ...
, he also was a high-ranking Russian commander during the subsequent
November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution,
was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...
, and notably the
Battle of Warsaw (1831)
The Battle of Warsaw was fought in September 1831 between Imperial Russia and Poland. After a two-day assault on the city's western fortifications, the Polish defences collapsed and the city was evacuated. It was the largest battle and the ...
.
Pahlen also served as
Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of France from March 11, 1835, to April 8, 1841.
References
1778 births
1864 deaths
Baltic-German people
Imperial Russian Army generals
Hussars
Russian nobility
Russian Imperial Hussars officers
Russian people of the November Uprising
House of Pahlen
Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to France
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