The biography of the chieftain of the Cossacks

Of course, Ataman Platov is the most famous Cossack. On a European scale. The crowned persons and State Muds of Europe were proud of his acquaintance. Napoleon, admiring the valor of Matvey Ivanovich, gave him a precious snuffbox. In the year, in England, as they say, 32x23 cm posters dedicated to the hunter Platov and the “Corsican Fox” Napoleon were released.

In the same place, he was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Law of Oxford University. Platov was the second Cossack, who received a count's title during his lifetime. In the 19th century, he was put monuments, composed a song in his honor. There is, for example, such. It is clear that they did not take any skin from the Platov and they didn’t make a stuffed man out of it.

The author, apparently, wanted to say that the chieftain on the way to glory went through severe inhuman trials. Ivan Platov, the father of the hero. He traveled all the countries and a little if Platov notices that the sovereign is very interested in something foreign, then all the escorts are silent, and Platov will say now: “This is how, at home, there are no worse monuments to Matvey Ivanovich at home, although they recognized the hero of the year.

Now the Platovs again began to appear on the squares of Rostov, Novocherkassk and Moscow. Today, the count is such a mythological hero like George the Victorious, Heracles, Superman. Everything is on the shoulder, he is ready to complete any state task. Meanwhile, Platov was a man, and nothing human was alien to him. Matvey Ivanovich Platov was born in the capital of the Don Cossacks of Cherkasy in the year - this is how he said, as it was written in Wikipedia.

According to the documents stored in the regional archive - in the year, on August 8. His father was a military foreman. According to one version, the Platovs once rafted the forest. Hence the nickname, which became the surname, from the "raft". There is a version that the surname is from the word "board". The board is an elegant embroidered bedspread, it was laid on top of the saddle.

Matvey Platov told biographers that his father was from ordinary fishermen. Ivan Platov was a competent man knew how to read and write, wealth had an average. But "stretched". Showed dashing and fidelity. Cherkassians called Ivan an upstart. The upstart was seen by the chieftain Danila Efremov. Ataman is like the secretary of the regional committee in Soviet times. By significance and influence.

The Efremovsky house was struck by wealth and luxury is the same house in Starocherkassk, in which the main building of the museum is now located. Efremov was the first to bring European furniture to Don, he had the first carriage - summer and winter, with a stove. We can say that the first art gallery in these places appeared at Efremov: first he ordered his portrait, then relatives, then went “celebrities” such as reigning persons and folk heroes.

Danila Efremov instructed Ivan Platov to secret affairs, sending on business trips throughout Russia. In the end, Ivan got to Moscow, in the so -called Zima village. The village was called Zimova, since the embassy was sent to Moscow in the winter, and returned in the spring. From 80 to the Cossacks were sent to the villages. They were detaching to receive salaries, gunshot supplies, and bread allowance from the Russian king.

All the villages arrived in Moscow were accepted with great honor and kept at the expense of the Russian treasury. Stanichniki, taking into account the status of each “upon admission” and “on vacation”, were awarded valuable gifts: fabrics, fur, weapons, silver buckets, and registered award sabers. Often gifts were offered to replace with money. In addition, in Moscow it was possible to acquire acquaintances and connections.

Apparently, Ivan Platov did not miss such an opportunity. Historians, in particular Professor Andrei Venkov, believe that the decisive role in the career of Ivan Platov played part in the Peterhof campaign of the year, when Catherine II removed from the power of her wife - Peter III. Ivan realized that the location of Catherine can somehow be used. And in the year he sent his summer son to serve in the military office.

Matvey Platov was appointed orderly to the commander of the 2nd Army V. This was the first step of Matvey Ivanovich on the career ladder. Apparently, Matvey liked Vasily Mikhailovich. In the thirteenth year of his life, he himself was recorded by a soldier in the army, maybe he found some parallels between their fate. Vasily Dolgorukov received the rank of lieutenant at the age of 14 - he distinguished himself when taking the Perekop fortress.

Before the assault on Perekop, Field Marshal Minich promised that the first soldier, who had ascended to the fortifications of the living, would be promoted to officers. In the year, Russia again fought with Turkey, only now the troops were commanded by Vasily Mikhailovich, and distinguished himself during the attack and capture of the same Perekop Matvey Platov. The prince, like Minich once, noted the young man.

Platov was not even 20 years old when he received the regiment and rank of military foreman in command. He was not elected, he was “written in the Don foremen” by Prince Dolgorukov. An article in the "Petersburg Gazette" about the next feat of Platov - in the year - the prince himself will write. After the return of Platov’s regiment from the service in the Kuban, he is sent to fight with the Pugachevites, so to speak, to clean up the remains of defeated rebels who scattered along the Volga.Father Ivan at that time is engaged in peasant performances around Moscow.

Exposing the Pugachevites, Platov served until May. Matvey Platov told his biographers that he met Nadia as a child. And since then I have been thinking about her. I must say that by that time Stepan Danilovich was not alive for three years. In the year he was removed from the post of chieftain, judged by a military court, he was found guilty that he had not fulfilled many commands of the Commander-in-Chief, disobeyed six decrees of the military collegium on the immediate arrival in St.

Petersburg, publicly before the foremen, with impudence and threats, “forgetting the position that was subject to her imperial majesty,” pronounced unusual words. In addition, he was "found guilty in other nasty laws, honor and positions of actions." This was not the first criminal record of Efremov, there was another - for biennial. Efremov was sentenced to hanging, but then they pardoned and sent to the eternal settlement to the city of Pernov, then, however, they forgave it, and Efremov moved to St.

Petersburg. Nadenka, thus, was the daughter of the "enemy of the people", albeit partly rehabilitated and fantastically rich. But it was unlikely that Matvey Ivanovich would have tied fate with her, if not for dad. Ivan Fedorovich knew where the wind was blowing. At the court of Catherine, they came up with a kind of know-how to neutralize the dissatisfied-the children of the disgraced Cossacks were supposed to relax with the children of the Cossacks of the trustworthy.

Matvey Ivanovich and Nadezhda Stepanovna ideally suited this program. As Platov Sr. thought, they did so. Father Ivan Fedorovich, with the permission of the military office, founded two farms for the son of Matvey: one near Taganrog, in the upper reaches of the Small Strivo River, and the other on Olkhova’s beam at the Mius River. For young people, Ivan bought forty -three serfs in Russia.

Platov’s wife infrequently saw his wife. Nevertheless, their son Ivan was born - and in the year Nadezhda Stepanovna died. Soon Platov married again. On the widow of Colonel Kirsanov Marfa Dmitrievna Kirsanova. Marfa had two children from a previous marriage, but she was the daughter of a second person in the army - military judge Dmitry Martynov. He lived with Martha Platov for 28 years.

She gave birth to Matvey Ivanovich four daughters and two sons. The spouses were seen infrequently: either Matvey Ivanovich on the campaign, then at the court. Potemkin represents Platova to Catherine. As his biographer Nikolai Smirny wrote, “he had the opportunity to use the excellent attention of the first court ladies, known in excellent mind and the highest power of attorney, such as Marya Savvichna Perevusikhina, Countess Charlotte Karlovna Livnovna Liven, Katerina Ivanovna Nelidova and many others.

To them, until his death, he retained his full respect and gratitude. ” The adjutant Platov recalled that he “in handling the ladies was perfectly polite, respectful, affectionate and friendly. He had a thousand funds to decently occupy them and, so to speak, to caress them with weaknesses. He laid out the cards and predicted the future, guessed the dreams of the others, and played with the third in Boston or the other what game was the party.

” The ill -wishers after the death of Matvey Ivanovich said that he had "made a career on women." In the year, Platov receives the title of Major General. Everything goes the best. In the year, Catherine sent troops to the Caucasus to fight the Persians who captured Baku and Tbilisi. In mid-November, the thousandth Russian corps, under the command of General-General Valerian Zubov, reached the merger of the Kura and Araksa rivers.