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Dmitry Mikhaylovich Galitzine
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын, Golitsyn, ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn; 16651737) was a Russian aristocrat of the House of Golitsyn, Golitsyn family. A cousin of Prince Vasily Golitsyn (1643), Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn, he was noted for his noble attempt to turn Russia into a constitutional monarchy. Golitsyn was sent by Peter the Great in 1697 to Italy to learn military affairs; in 1704 he was appointed to the command of an auxiliary corps in Poland against Charles XII of Sweden, Charles XII; from 1711 to 1718 he was governor of Belgorod. In 1718 he was appointed president of the newly erected collegium (ministry), Commerce Collegium and a senator. In May 1723 he was implicated in the disgrace of the vice-chancellor Shafirov and was deprived of all his offices and dignities, which he only recovered through the mediation of the empress. After the death of Peter the Great, Golitsyn became the recognized head of the old Conserva ...
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