LEVSHIN See also:

• LEVSHIN PLATON (1737-1812)

PLATON (1737-1812)  , See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Chashnikovo near See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, and educated in the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . In 1763 the empress See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine II. invited him to instruct her son See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul in See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, and he became one of the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court chaplains . Three years afterwards Platen was appointed arcllimandrite of the monastery of the Trinity (Troitskaya Lavra) near Moscow, in 1770 See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• TVER

Tver, and in 1787 archbishop of Moscow and See also:

• METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

metropolitan . He died in 1812, one of his last acts having been to write an encouraging See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander I. in view of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French invasion . Platen was a brilliant and learned See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and the author of several See also:

• WORKS

works which enjoyed a high reputation in their See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, including A See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short See also:

• HISTORY

History of the Russian See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, which has been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English .