Peter Mattias was born in approximately 1779 in Hannover.
He was a soldier with the French Uhlan Regiment of Napoleon's Army and fought against the Russians. He was captured by the Russians.
Milovidov records that as of 1814, his father, mother, brother, and sister were still living in the town of Hannover.
He was settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt in the household of Kornelius Duxberg.
Milovidov records that Peter Mattias came from the German village of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mattias family among the Volga German colonies.
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 34, #15)
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