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PLATON, LEVSHIN (1737-1812)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLATON, LEVSHIN (1737-1812) , See also:Russian divine, was See also:born at Chashnikovo near See also:Moscow, and educated in the See also:academy of that See also:city. In 1763 the empress See also:Catherine II. invited him to instruct her son See also:Paul in See also:theology, and he became one of the See also:court chaplains. Three years afterwards Platen was appointed arcllimandrite of the monastery of the Trinity (Troitskaya Lavra) near Moscow, in 1770 See also:archbishop of See also:Tver, and in 1787 archbishop of Moscow and See also:metropolitan. He died in 1812, one of his last acts having been to write an encouraging See also:letter to the See also:emperor See also:Alexander I. in view of the See also:French invasion. Platen was a brilliant and learned See also:man, and the author of several See also:works which enjoyed a high reputation in their See also:time, including A See also:Short See also:History of the Russian See also:Church, which has been translated into See also:English.

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