Peter von Baranoff

Peter Paul Alexander von[1] Baranoff (Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Бара́нов, tr.

27 April] 1843 – 22 December 1924) was a Baltic German military officer and statesman.

27 April] 1843 in Reval in the Governorate of Estonia (present-day Tallinn, Estonia), to Peter Hermann von Baranoff and Marie Louise Simplicie Pauline von Nicolay (ru).

In 1745, the Estonian high count gave an appeal the "Attestatum nobilitaris", that under the conclusion "that from 1592 on the Baranoff family was to be brought under local nobility".

Some of the most famous members of the Baranoffs also belonged to this branch, including Peter's uncles Johann, Nikolai, Paul von Baranoff, who were all high-ranked Russian military officers and statesmans.

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