page_title: Peter Essen
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Essen
caption_attribution_description: English: Count Peter Kirillovich Essen (1772 – 1844), Russian General of the Infantry. Русский: Граф Пётр Кири́ллович Э́ссен (1772 — 1844) — российский государственный и военный деятель.
context_page_description: Count Peter Essen was a Baltic German General of the Infantry in 1819 and a count. He belongs to the bourgeois Essen family from Pärnu. Essen's only daughter, Alexandrine Essen, married count Pontus von Stenbock-Fermor in 1835, at which point they began using the joint name Essen-Stenbock-Fermor.
context_section_description: Count Peter Essen (Russian: Пётр Кири́ллович Э́ссен, Pyotr Kirillovich Essen; 11 August 1772 – 23 September 1844) was a Baltic German General of the Infantry in 1819 and a count (1833). He belongs to the bourgeois Essen family from Pärnu (not to be confused with the Baltic German noble Essen family, which had the von prefix in the name). Essen's only daughter, Alexandrine Essen (1816–1868), married count Pontus von Stenbock-Fermor (1806–1866) in 1835, at which point they began using the joint name Essen-Stenbock-Fermor.
caption: Portrait by George Dawe from the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace
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