Countess Emilia Broel-Plater (; 13 November 1806 – 23 December 1831) was a Polish–Lithuanian noblewoman and revolutionary or Lithuanian

Biography

Early life

thumb|left|Plater's statement of 25 March 1831 on joining the November Uprising

Emilia Plater was born in Vilnius into a noble Polish–Lithuanian Plater family. although the description of her death is a pure poetical fiction and was only loosely based on her real life. She was depicted on the Second Polish Republic's 20 zloty note.

See also

  • Maria Piotrowiczowa, female insurgent of the 1863 Polish uprising

References

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  • Original letter by Emilia Plater, in which she confirms the fact that she joined the ranks of the army of her own will
  • Westphalian Plater family