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Couple being married in front of a crowd of dignitaries
Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs
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PETER TURNERELLI (1774-1839)

Portrait bust of Matvei Ivanovich, Count Platov (1751-1818)

signed & dated 1815

RCIN 35416

Count Platov, a Russian General, commanded the ‘Don Cossack’ forces against the French during the Napoleonic Wars. He accompanied Emperor Alexander I to London in 1814. In 1815 the Prince Regent commissioned Turnerelli to make this portrait bust of the General for the Armoury at his London residence, Carlton House.

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