Platov family explained

The Platov family was the name of a Russian noble family of Don Cossacks origin. Descendants of Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov.

Notable members

• 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.

External links

• 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,

Notes and References

1. Mikaberidze, A. The Russian officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars 1792–1815. Savas Beatie, New York, 2005, p.304