The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was one of the largest princely of the
noble houses
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in the
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and
Russian Empire
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. Among them were
boyars,
warlords
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, diplomats, generals (the Mikhailovichs),
stewards
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,
chamberlain
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s, the richest men of Russia (the Alexeyevichs), and provincial landlords (the Vasilyevichs). Since 1694
Bolshiye Vyazyomy
Bolshiye Vyazyomy (russian: Большие Вязёмы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. The population is Vyazyomy is the location of Vyazyomy Manor owned by members of the Gol ...
was one of the ancestral estates of the Golitsyns, but many others, like
Arkhangelskoye Palace
Arkhangelskoye (russian: Арха́нгельское) is a historical estate in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located around 20 km to the west of Moscow and 2 km southwest of Krasnogorsk.
History
From 1703 to 1810, A ...
and
Dubrovitsy near
Podolsk
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History
The first mentions of the village of Podol, ...
, were owned by different branches or members of the family.
In the 1850s the Russian memoirist
Filipp Vigel
Filipp Filippovich Vigel (Филипп Филиппович Вигель, ''Philip Philipovich Weigel''; 1786-1856) was a Russian noble of Swedish extraction who served in the foreign ministry, accompanied Count Golovkin on his 1805 mission to Chi ...
despaired: "So numerous are the Golitsyns that soon it will be impossible to mention any of them without the family tree at hand".
Of the numerous branches of the princely family that existed in 1917, only one survived in the
Soviet Union
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; all others were extinguished or forced into exile. The
Bolsheviks
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arrested dozens of Golitsyns only to be shot or killed in the
Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...
; dozens disappeared in the storm of the
revolution
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and the
Russian Civil War
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, and their fate remained unknown.
Origins
The family descends according to legend from a Lithuanian prince Jurgis (George), son of
Patrikas
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and grandson of
Narimantas
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, thus great-grandson of
Gediminas
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(d. 1341),
Grand Duke of Lithuania
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. After the extinction of the
Korecki family
The House of Korecki (Polish: ród Koreckich (Korecki clan), Koreccy) was a princely family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania origin. The name is derived from the original seat of the family at the Korets Castle, which was part of the Grand Duch ...
in the 17th century, the Golitsyns claimed dynastic seniority in the House of Gediminas.
Their surname in rus, Голи́цын, Golitsyn, ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn and
cyrillic script
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is alternatively
transliterated
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: Galitzine (French), Galitzin (German), Golicyn (Italian) or Golitsin (Spanish), etc. “Vir est Vis”, or "man himself is power”, is the Golitsyn family motto.
History
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George immigrated to the court of
Vasily I of Moscow
Vasily I Dmitriyevich ( rus, Василий I Дмитриевич, Vasiliy I Dmitriyevich; 30 December 137127 February 1425) was the Grand Prince of Moscow ( r. 1389–1425), heir of Dmitry Donskoy (r. 1359–1389). He ruled as a Golden Horde ...
and married Vasily's sister. His children and grandchildren, among them
Vassian Patrikeyev, were considered premier Russian
boyars. One of them, Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Bulgark (The Bulgarian), earned the nickname ''Golitsa'' (glove, ' in Old Lithuanian) for an iron (or strong leather) glove he wore in the
Battle of Orsha
The Battle of Orsha ( be, Бітва пад Оршай, translit=Bitva pad Oršaj, lt, Oršos mūšis, pl, bitwa pod Orszą, uk, Битва під Оршею), was a battle fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the Grand Du ...
in 1514. His son
Yuri Mikhailovich Bulgakov continued with the family line Golytsin and his great-grandson Prince
Vasily Golitsyn
Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn (russian: Василий Васильевич Голицын, Romanization of Russian, tr. ; 1643–1714) was a Russian aristocrat and statesman of the 17th century. He belonged to the Golitsyn family, Golitsyn ...
was claimant to the Russian throne during the
Time of Troubles
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and went as an ambassador to Poland to offer the Russian crown to
Prince Władysław; died in prison.
Prince (
knyaz) Andrey Andreyevich Golitsyn (d. 1638), governor of Siberia (1633–35), was the ancestor of all existing princes Golitsyns. He had four sons, from whom four branches of the Golitsyn family descended:
*Vasil (1618–1652) – branch Vassilyevich
*Ivan (? – 1690) – branch Ivanovich, ended in 1751 (in a monastery)
*Alexey (1632–1694) – branch Alexeevich
*
Michael
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(1639–1687) – branch Mikhailovich
The family produced many well-known statesmen and generals, among them
Vasily
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*Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
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,
Boris,
Dmitry
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and
Nikolai Golitsyn
Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn (russian: Никола́й Дми́триевич Голи́цын; 12 April 1850 – 2 July 1925) was a Russian aristocrat, monarchist and the last prime minister of Imperial Russia. He was in office from 2 ...
, the last chairman of the
Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire
The Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire was the highest executive authority of the Russian Empire, created in a new form by the highest decree of October 19, 1905 for the general "management and unification of the actions of the chief he ...
(Prime Minister of Imperial Russia), earning his living by repairing shoes and guarding public parks after the
February revolution.
Notable Golitsyns
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Branch Vassilyevich
*
Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn (1643–1714) was a leading
boyar, a Russian statesmen, combining military duties with civilian pursuits,
de facto
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head of the government during the regency of
Sophia Alekseyevna
Sophia Alekseyevna ( rus, Со́фья Алексе́евна, p=ˈsofʲjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə; ) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Pri ...
(1682–1689) over her brother
Ivan
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and half-brother
Peter the Great who banished him and his family to
Arkhangelsk Oblast. He owned a richly decorated mansion in Moscow which became the location of the
State Duma.
** Aleksey Vasilyevich Golitsyn (1665–1740) In 1683, he received from his grandfather a village south of Moscow, now
Tsaritsyno Palace
Tsaritsyno ( rus, Царицыно, p=tsɐˈrʲitsɨnə, literal meaning "Tsaritsa's property") is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow.
It was founded in the 1775 as the summer residence of Empress Catherine II, but the constr ...
and surrounding park. In 1694 he was stripped of his
boyardom (with the retention of the princely title) and the Tsar sent him and his family into exile. He returned in 1726, after the death of Peter I.
*** Mikhail Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1687–1775) nicknamed "the fool" was punished by Empress
Anna of Russia
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for converting to Catholicism in order to marry an Italian or German woman. This marriage was declared illegal and she appointed him court
jester in 1738, serving
kvass to the guests. Two years later she forced him to marry either a
Kalmuck
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or a female jester from
Kamchatka
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. The "mock wedding" which took place inside a
two-room ice palace on the
Neva
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in February
1740 during an extremely cold winter remained famous. He moved to his estate and was buried near
Pushkino.
*** Sergei Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1695–1758), served as the Moscow governor, director of the Moscow Mint.
**** Nikolai Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1712–1773)
*****
Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn
Prince Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn (December 19, 1773 – December 4, 1844) was a statesman of the Russian Empire, in 1803–1816 he served as Chief Prosecutor, and in 1816–1824 he served as Minister of Education, an Active Privy Council ...
(1773–1844), was a lifelong bachelor, homosexual and reactionary minister of education in the government of
Alexander I Alexander I may refer to:
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. He headed an investigation into
masonic
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involvement in the
Decembrist
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uprising of 1825 and served as the Chairman of
the State Council from 1838 to 1841; retired to his Crimean estate in
Neo-Gothic style
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.
****Aleksey Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1723–1765) was the grandfather of
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn, the last prime minister of
Imperial Russia.
Branch Alexeevich
* Aleksey Andreyevich Golitsyn (1632–1694), governor of Siberia, of Kiev.
**
Boris Alekseyevich Golitsyn
Prince Boris Alexeyevich Golitsyn (surname sometimes transcribed Galitzin, rus, Голи́цын, Golitsyn, ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn; 1654–1714) was a Russian politician of the noble House of Golitsyn, Golitsyn family. His chief political opponent wa ...
(1654–1714), a cousin and the chief political opponent of Vasily Vasilyevich, was tutor and participated in the coup that placed Peter the Great on the throne; head of the government during the "
Great Embassy
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Description
In 1697 and 1698, Pe ...
" of 1697–98; owner of the estates
Bolshiye Vyazyomy
Bolshiye Vyazyomy (russian: Большие Вязёмы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. The population is Vyazyomy is the location of Vyazyomy Manor owned by members of the Gol ...
and Dubrovitsy.
*** Vasili Borisovich Golitsyn (1681–1710) inherited the estate, but died when the ceiling came down.
**** Mikhail Vasilievich Golitsyn (1702–1749)
***** Nikolay Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1729–1799) became the new owner of Bolshiye Vyazyomy in 1766.
**** Boris Vasilievich Golitsyn (1705–1769), admiral
*****
Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn
Prince Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (russian: Владимир Борисович Голицын; 21 June 1731 – 25 December 1798) was a Russian statesman.
Early life
21 June 1731. He was the son of Admiral Prince Boris Vasilevich Golitsyn (17 ...
(1731–1798) was a Russian statesman; his wife
Natalya Golitsyna
Princess Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna (; (Чернышёва); 28 January 17411 January 1838) was a Russian nobility, noblewoman, lady-in-waiting, socialite, and Dame (title), Dame of the Order of St. Catherine's first degree.
Born into the noble ...
was known as a learned woman, a gambler and a good dancer. She served
Catherine the Great and was characterized in
The Queen of Spades (story)
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. In 1783 she moved with her daughters
Ekaterina
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Arts
* Ekaterina Medvede ...
and
Sophie to Paris and visited her sons; all the Golitsyns returned to Russia in 1791.
******
Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1769–1813) was a Russian aristocrat who received his education in
Strasbourg (1782), and attended the
École militaire
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* École, Savo ...
in Paris (1786). The correspondence of the elder of the Golitsyn brothers attests to his deep interest in analyzing and comprehending the events of the French Revolution. He became very hostile to the turn of events and joined the Swedish army to fight against Revolutionary France.
[Rzewski V.S. & V.A. Chudinov Russian "members" of the French revolution // French Yearbook 2010: Sources of the history of the French revolution of the XVIII century and the era of Napoleon. M.C. 6–45.] In 1803, Boris Vladimirovich received the estate of Vyazemy from Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1729–1799), interested in agriculture, horse breeding, but without issue. Boris fought in the
battle of Smolensk, was wounded in the
battle of Borodino and died in
Vilnius
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.
******
Dmitri Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1771–1844) attended the École Militair also, which Napoleon had left in 1785. On 14 July 1789 Dmitry was somehow involved in the
Storming of the Bastille
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.
He wrote his mother about the activities of the
National Constituent Assembly (France). After a brief participation in the
Finnish War
The Finnish War ( sv, Finska kriget, russian: Финляндская война, fi, Suomen sota) was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a re ...
Dmitry resigned his commission in 1809 and settled at
Bolshiye Vyazyomy
Bolshiye Vyazyomy (russian: Большие Вязёмы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. The population is Vyazyomy is the location of Vyazyomy Manor owned by members of the Gol ...
. At the end of August 1812 he was reappointed by
Kutuzov
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( rus, Князь Михаи́л Илларио́нович Голени́щев-Куту́зов, Knyaz' Mikhaíl Illariónovich Goleníshchev-Kutúzov; german: Mikhail Illarion Golenishchev-Kut ...
. After the
Battle of Borodino both Kutuzov and Napoleon spend a night on his estate along the road from
Mozhaysk
MozhayskAlternative transliterations include ''Mozhaisk'', ''Mozhajsk'', ''Mozhaĭsk'', and ''Možajsk''. ( rus, Можа́йск, p=mɐˈʐajsk) is a town and the administrative center of Mozhaysky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located to th ...
to Moscow. He fought in the
Battle of Tarutino
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The battle is sometimes cal ...
,
Vyazma
Vyazma (russian: Вя́зьма) is a town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast, and Mozhaysk. Thr ...
, and
Krasny. In 1814 he was promoted to the rank of full
General of the Cavalry General of the Cavalry (german: General der Kavallerie) was a General officer rank in the cavalry in various states of which the modern states of German and Austria are successors or in other armies which used the German model. Artillery officers ...
. He
governed Moscow for 25 years, but died in Paris. Member of the
State Council (Russian Empire).
******* Vladimir Dmitrievich Golitsyn (1815–1888) married
Maria Golitzyna
Princess Maria Mikhailovna Golitzyna (russian: Мария Михайловна Голицина; 1834–1910) was a Russian noble, courtier and philanthropist. She served as ''Ober-Hofmeisterin'' (Mistress of the Robes) to Empress Alexandra F ...
.
** Ivan Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1656/8–1729)
*** Alexei Ivanovich Golitsyn (1707–1739) died of plague in Constantinople.
**** Ivan Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1729–1767)
**** Pyotr Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1731–1810)
****
Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin
Prince Dmitri Alexeievich Gallitzin FRS (21 December 1728 – 16 March 1803) was a Russian diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist. By birth he was a member of an ancient House of Golitsyn. He was a supporter of the recogn ...
(1734/8–The Hague, 1803) was a Russian diplomat, art agent for Catherine the Great. The idea of acquiring not individual pictures but large collections "en bloc" came from Golitsyn. He was the main driving force behind the subsequent painting acquisitions in France. He was the Russian ambassador in Paris (1762–68); a friend of
Falconet,
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the '' Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a promi ...
, a supporter of the
physiocrats
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, and translated
Helvétius. He was envoy in The Hague (1768–98), a supporter of the
League of Armed Neutrality, the
recognition of the United States and the
abolition of serfdom. After
1789
Events
January–March
* January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution.
* January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential electio ...
he continued to defend his principles and never returned to Russia. In 1768 he married
Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin. In 1774 the couple split and the Princess moved to a country house between The Hague and the beach, to better to oversee raising her children in a way J.J. Rousseau had promoted in his "
Emile". She turned to Catholicism in 1786. He is known as volcanologist and mineralogist.
***** Prince
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (The Hague, 1770–1840) also known as the ''Apostle of the Alleghenies'', grew up with prince
William I of the Netherlands
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He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who went ...
. In 1792 he embarked to Baltimore. He was the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in America; a settlement in Pennsylvania is named after him. He is currently under investigation for possible
Sainthood
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, his current title is
Servant of God.
** Pyotr Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1660–1722)
Branch Mikhailovich
*
Mikhail Andreyevich Golitsyn Prince Mikhail Andreyevich Golitsyn (russian: Михаил Андреевич Голицын; 1639–1687) was a member of the House of Golitsyn and governor of Pskov.
He was born in early 1639. His parents were Yevfimia Yurievna Pilemova-Saburova ...
(1639–1687) was governor of Smolensk, Kiev and Kursk.
**
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Elder
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын, Golitsyn, ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn; 16651737) was a Russian aristocrat of the Golitsyn family. A cousin of Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn, he was noted f ...
(1665–1737) opposed Peter's reforms. In 1727 he became a member of the
Supreme Privy Council
The Supreme Privy Council (russian: Верховный тайный совет) of Imperial Russia, founded on 19 February 1726 and operative until 1730, originated as a body of advisors to Empress Catherine I.
History
Originally, the council com ...
, which governed for
Peter II of Russia
Peter II Alexeyevich (russian: Пётр II, Пётр Алексеевич, ''Pyotr Vtoroy'', ''Pyotr Alekseyevich'', – ) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1727 until his untimely death at the age of 14. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei ...
. He was condemned to death (1736) for his anti-autocratic beliefs, but
Anna of Russia
Anna Ioannovna (russian: Анна Иоанновна; ), also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much ...
commuted his sentence to
life imprisonment. Noted for his attempt to turn Russia into a
constitutional monarchy
A constitutional monarchy, parliamentary monarchy, or democratic monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in decision making. Constitutional monarchies dif ...
; Russia lived without autocracy for only 37 days. Owner of
Arkhangelskoye Palace
Arkhangelskoye (russian: Арха́нгельское) is a historical estate in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located around 20 km to the west of Moscow and 2 km southwest of Krasnogorsk.
History
From 1703 to 1810, A ...
.
**
Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (Field Marshal)
Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn or Galitzin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Голи́цын, tr. ; 1 November 1675 in Moscow – 10 December 1730) was a Russian Imperial field marshal (1725) and a president of the Colleg ...
(Sr) (1675–1730) is best known for his governorship of
Old Finland
Old Finland ( fi, Vanha Suomi; rus, Ста́рая Финля́ндия, r=Staraya Finlyandiya; sv, Gamla Finland) is a name used for the areas that Russia gained from Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and in the Russo-Swedis ...
(1714–1721), where his harsh rule is remembered by the people he had conquered as the
Greater Wrath
The Great Wrath (, in contemporary sources: , 'Era of Russian domination/supremacy'; ) was a period of Finnish history dominated by the Russian invasion and subsequent military occupation of Finland, then part of the Swedish Empire, from 1714 ...
(Swedish: ''Stora ofreden''); member of the Supreme Privy Council. He was married twice and had 18 children.
***
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (17 November 1718 – 8 October 1783) was a Russian prince of the House of Golitsyn and field marshal. He was the General Governor of Saint Petersburg Governorate in 1780 to 1783.
Life
Early life
As was tr ...
(1718–1783) was
field-marshal
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army and as such few persons are appointed to it. It is considered as ...
wounded at the
Battle of Kunersdorf, an envoy in Hamburg, Constantinople, ambassador in Dresden, and
governor of Saint Petersburg
The Governor of Saint Petersburg (Губернатор Санкт-Петербурга) is the head of the executive branch of Saint Petersburg City Administration. The governor's office administers all city services, public property, police and ...
, involved in the development of
New Holland Island
New Holland Island (russian: Но́вая Голла́ндия) is a historic triangular artificial island in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, dating from the 18th century. It is also known as Admiralty Island.
Construction
The island was ...
.
***
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Younger
Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn or Gallitzin (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын; German: ''Demetrius Michalowitsch von Gallitzin''; born 15 May 1721 in Abo, died 19 September 1793 in Vienna) was a Russian diplomat, ...
(1721–1793) was the Russian ambassador in Vienna. He married
Ekaterina
Ekaterina is a Russian feminine given name, and an alternative transliteration of the Russian ''Yekaterina''. Katya and Katyusha are common diminutive forms of Ekaterina. Notable people with the name can be found below.
Arts
* Ekaterina Medvede ...
, a daughter of the
Moldovan historian and composer
Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (, russian: Дмитрий Кантемир; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Romanian prince, statesman, and man of letters, regarded as one of the most significant e ...
, and was the brother-in-law of
Antiochus Cantemir
Antiochus or Antioch Kantemir or Cantemir (russian: Антиох Дмитриевич Кантемир, ''Antiokh Dmitrievich Kantemir''; ro, Antioh Cantemir; tr, Antioh Kantemiroğlu; french: Antioche Cantemir; 8 September 1708 – 31 Mar ...
. Primarily remembered for the he funded, he was also an art collector, advised
Catherine the Great. He was a patron of
Mozart, whom he invited to play once a week.
*** Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727–1787)
*** Andrey Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1729–1770)
****
Boris Andreevich Golitsyn
Prince Boris Andreevich Golitsyn (Russian – Борис Андреевич Голицын ; 15 May 1766 – 30 March 1822) was a Russian nobleman, army officer and member of the Golitsyn family.
Life
His parents were Andrei Michailovich Golitsy ...
(1766–1822) was a Russian general but was dismissed in 1800. He was friendly with
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Georgian general and prince serving in the Russian Empire, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.
Bagration, a member of the Bagrationi dynasty, was born in Tbilisi. Hi ...
who died of
gangrene on his estate at
Sima, Vladimir Oblast
Sima (russian: Сима) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a Village#Russia, selo) and the administrative center of Simskoye Rural Settlement, Yuryev-Polsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,537 as ...
. Boris joined the Napoleonic wars afterwards.
***** Prince
Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin (1794–1866) was an amateur cellist who commissioned
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
in 1822 to write his last
string quartets
The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinist ...
, sometimes called the ''
Galitzin quartets''. He translated Pushkin's works into French and sent his translations to the author, with whom he was probably familiar since the late 1810s.
**
Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (admiral)
Prince Mikhail Mikhailovitch Golitsyn or Galitzin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Голи́цын) (1 November 1684 – 25 March 1764) was a Russian admiral and diplomat.
Biography
Born in Moscow, he was the youngest son of ...
(Jr) (1684–1764) was general admiral of the Russian fleet (1756); member of the Supreme Privy Council.
***
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (vice chancellor)
Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Александр Михайлович Голицын; – ) - was a Russian envoy to Great Britain, Vice-Chancellor, representative of the younger branch of the House of Golitsyn. Full Pri ...
(1723–1807) was a Russian envoy to Paris, and London. He contributed to the accession to the throne of
Catherine II of Russia. In 1778, he retired and lived in Moscow, doing charitable work. He was the founder of the Golitsyn Hospital, and at the expense of his cousin
D.M. Golitsyn. He was buried in the church of the Golitsyn Hospital, now the City Clinical Hospital No. 1.
*** Andrei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1729–1770) married a daughter of
Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov
Prince Boris Grigoryevich Yusupov (Russian : Борис Григорьевич Юсупов; 1695–1759) was a Russian nobleman and politician.
Life
From the house of Yusupov, a Russian noble family descended from 10th-century khans, he was el ...
.
**** Alexey Andreevich Golitsyn (1767–1800) married
Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna
Princess Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna (russian: Александра Петровна Голицына, née ) (1774–1842) was a maid of honour and historian of the Russian noble Protasov family. Sister to Moscow aristocrat and writer Catherine ...
*****
Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (1792–1842) a Catholic convert who moved to Paris
***** Princess
Yelizaveta Alexeyevna Golitsyna (1797–1844) a Roman Catholic nun
*** Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1731–1804) was married to the wealthy Anna Alexandrovna
Stroganova (1739–1816), who brought the estate
Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki
Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki is an estate formerly belonging to the Stroganov and Golitsyn families of the Russian nobility. Today, it is incorporated into Kuzminki-Lyublino historical park located in Moscow's Kuzminki District. The estate was named af ...
as a dowry.
****Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1772–1821) was an art collector.
*****Mikhail Alexandrovich Golitsyn (1804–1860) was diplomat, writer and connoisseur of fine arts, who lived in Madrid and Rome, and turned catholic. He was a
bibliophile
Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books. A bibliophile or bookworm is an individual who loves and frequently reads and/or collects books.
Profile
The classic bibliophile is one who loves to read, admire and collect books, often ama ...
and the owner of a splendid library.
******Sergey Mikhailovich (1843–1915) opened the Golitsyn Museum, now part of the
Pushkin Museum in Moscow, but sold his collection in 1886 to the Hermitage.
****Sergei Mikhailovich (1774–1859), director of the Golitsyn Hospital (1807–59), member of the State Council (1837–59) was married to Avdotya Ivanovna Golitsyna ("princesse Nocturne") the hostess of the St. Petersburg Salon. As he died without issue the inheritance went to his nephew, the bibliophile, who died the year after.
19th and 20th century
* Prince Alexei Vasilyevich Golitsyn (1832–1901) was a friend of
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most pop ...
. Like the composer, Golitsyn was homosexual; but unlike the composer, he lived openly with his lover, Nikolay Vasilyevich Masalitinov (d. 1884).
* Boris D. Golitsyn (1819-1878) and his son Dmitry B. Golitsyn (1851-1920)
* Prince
Grigory Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1838–1907) was a general and the Governor of
Transcaucasia
The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Arme ...
in 1897–1904.
*
Lev Golitsyn
Prince Lev Sergeyevich Golitsyn (russian: Лев Сергеевич Голицын; 24 August 1845 – 26 December 1915) was a Russian winemaker of the 1890s. He established the production of sparkling wines in Russia.
Biography
Lev Sergeyevich ...
(1845–1915) was one of the founders of winemaking at
Yusupov Palace (Crimea)
The Yusupov Palace ( uk, Юсуповський палац; rus, Юсуповский дворец) is a palace located in the town of Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea. It was built for Prince Felix Yusupov-Soumorokov-Elston and his wife Princess ...
. In his estate of
Novyi Svet
Novyi Svit or Novy Svet ( uk, Новий Світ, translit=Novyi Svit; rus, Но́вый Свет, r=Novy Svet; crh, Novıy Svet; literally: 'New World' or more correctly 'New Community') is a resort, an urban-type settlement in Sudak Municip ...
he built the first Russian factory of
champagne wines. In 1889 the production of this winery won the gold medal at the Paris exhibition in the nomination for
sparkling wine
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, European Union countries legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the Champagne regi ...
s. He became the surveyor of imperial vineyards at
Abrau-Dyurso
Abrau-Dyurso or Abrau-Durso (russian: Абрау-Дюрсо) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is located on the shore of Lake Abrau, west of Novoro ...
in 1891.
*
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn (1850–1925) was the son of Dmitry Borisovich Golitsyn (1803–1864) and governor of Archangel, Kaluga, and Tver. He became the last
Tsarist
Tsarist autocracy (russian: царское самодержавие, transcr. ''tsarskoye samoderzhaviye''), also called Tsarism, was a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states ...
prime minister of Russia. On a hesitating Golitsyn was appointed as successor of
Alexander Trepov
Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov (; 30 September 1862, Kiev – 10 November 1928, Nice) was the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire from 23 November 1916 until 9 January 1917. He was conservative, a monarchist, a member of the Russian Assembly, a ...
. Golitsyn begged the Emperor to cancel his appointment, citing his lack of preparation for the role of Prime Minister. The tsar refused. A few weeks later the
February Revolution began. On 26 February Golitsyn used a (signed, but not yet dated)
ukaze
In Imperial Russia, a ukase () or ukaz (russian: указ ) was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law. "Edict" and "decree" are adequate translations using the terminology and concepts ...
declaring that his Majesty had decided to interrupt the
Imperial Duma
The State Duma, also known as the Imperial Duma, was the lower house of the Governing Senate in the Russian Empire, while the upper house was the State Council. It held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It convened four times ...
until April, leaving it with no legal authority to act. The Government was paralyzed. "On the evening of 27 February (March 12 (N.S.) the
Council of Ministers of Russia The Russian Council of Ministers is an executive governmental council that brings together the principal officers of the Executive Branch of the Russian government. This includes the chairman of the government and ministers of federal government dep ...
held its last meeting in the
Marinsky Palace
Mariinsky Palace (), also known as Marie Palace, was the last neoclassical Imperial residence to be constructed in Saint Petersburg. It was built between 1839 and 1844, designed by the court architect Andrei Stackenschneider. It houses the ci ...
and formally submitted its resignation to the Tsar. The
Provisional Committee of the State Duma
The Provisional Committee of the State Duma () was a special government body established on March 12, 1917 (27 February O.S.) by the Fourth State Duma deputies at the outbreak of the February Revolution in the same year. It was formed under th ...
ordered the arrest of all the ex-ministers and senior officials" The next day Golitsyn was transferred to the
Peter and Paul Fortress for interrogation. During the period from 1920 to 1924 he was twice arrested by the
OGPU, on the suspicion of connection with counterrevolutionaries. After his third arrest (on 12 February 1925), he was executed on 2 July 1925 in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
on the charge of participating in a "counter-revolutionary monarchist organization"
* Princess
Sophie Galitzine
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise".
People with the name Born in the Middle Ages
* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess o ...
(1858–1883) who married French aristocrat Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and was the mother of
Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny and
Marie Thérèse, Duchess of Uzès.
* Anna Nikolaevna Golitsyna (1859–1929) married
Mikhail Rodzianko
Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko (russian: Михаи́л Влади́мирович Родзя́нко; uk, Михайло Володимирович Родзянко; 21 February 1859, Yekaterinoslav Governorate – 24 January 1924, Beod ...
, chairman of the
Imperial Duma
The State Duma, also known as the Imperial Duma, was the lower house of the Governing Senate in the Russian Empire, while the upper house was the State Council. It held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It convened four times ...
. She,
Zinaida Yusupova
Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (russian: Зинаи́да Никола́евна Юсу́пова; 2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her t ...
, and
Elizabeth Feodorovna
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to:
People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist
Ships
* HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships
* ''Elisabeth'' (s ...
secretly supported
Felix Yusupov
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (russian: Князь Фе́ликс Фе́ликсович Юсу́пов, Граф Сумаро́ков-Эльстон, Knyaz' Féliks Féliksovich Yusúpov, Graf Sumarókov-El'ston; – ...
,
Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich of Russia
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (russian: Великий Князь Дмитрий Павлович; 18 September 1891 – 5 March 1942) was a son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and a ...
and
Vladimir Purishkevich
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich ( rus, Влади́мир Митрофа́нович Пуришке́вич, p=pʊrʲɪˈʂkʲevʲɪt͡ɕ; , Kishinev – 1 February 1920, Novorossiysk, Russia) was a far-right politician in Imperial Russia, no ...
the murder of
Grigory Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus ga ...
. Rodzianko became one of the key politicians during the Russian
February Revolution. He was unacceptable as prime minister and Prince
Georgi Lvov
Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (7/8 March 1925) was a Russian aristocrat and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Russia, prime minister of Russian Provisional Government, republican Russia from 15 March to 20 July 1917. During ...
, a member of the
Constitutional Democratic Party
The Constitutional Democratic Party (russian: Конституцио́нно-демократи́ческая па́ртия, translit=Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of P ...
, became his successor.
*
Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862–1916) was a prominent physicist who invented the first electromagnetic
seismograph in 1906.
*
Mstislav Galitzine (1899-1966) was married to the famous California mystic, author and heiress
Aimee Crocker.
*
Vladimir Golitsyn
Vladimir may refer to:
Names
* Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name
* Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name
* Volodymyr for the Ukr ...
(1902–1943) After an early career as a sailor, during the 1920s Vladimir began a very successful career as a book illustrator and well-known artist, illustrating around forty books between 1925 and 1941. He also worked for the magazines the Universal Pathfinder, Pioneer and several others. Despite his very popular artwork, he was barely tolerated by the Stalinist bureaucracy and as general conditions worsened, found it increasingly hard to support his parents and young family. According to his brother, the writer
Sergei Golitsyn
Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Серге́й Михайлович Голицын; — 7 November 1989) was a Russian writer.
Biography
Golitsyn was born on 14(1) March 1909 at an estate in the Tula guberniya. His father was prin ...
, Vladimir died from exhaustion and under-nourishment in the Sviyazhska prison camp on 6 February 1943.
* Prince
Leo Golitsyn
Leo or Léo may refer to:
Acronyms
* Law enforcement officer
* Law enforcement organisation
* ''Louisville Eccentric Observer'', a free weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky
* Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
Arts an ...
(b. 1905–), who escaped from Soviet Russia during World War I and came to settle in Canada by 1929 in
Edson, Alberta
Edson is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Yellowhead County, west of Edmonton along the Yellowhead Highway and east of the intersection with Highway 47.
History
The town was founded as Heatherwood, but the name w ...
. He and his wife, an Egyptian Princess, purchased 420 acres of land, mostly bordering the
McLeod River
The McLeod River is a river in west-central Alberta, Canada. It forms in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and is a major tributary of the Athabasca River.
__TOC__
Course
The river begins just outside the eastern border of Jasper Nation ...
.
[Edson 75-Marguerite Ahlf] Golitsyn and his wife started an airplane charter company at Bear Lake. After the Princess died during a vacation in Europe, Leo moved to Hollywood where he was seen acting in various films as an extra, including in ''
The Razor's Edge
''The Razor's Edge'' is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The story beg ...
'' and ''
The Chocolate Soldier
''The Chocolate Soldier'' (German: ''Der tapfere Soldat'' he courageous soldier
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...
or ''Der Praliné-Soldat'') is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus (composer), Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, ''Arms and the Man' ...
''.
*
Sergei Golitsyn
Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Серге́й Михайлович Голицын; — 7 November 1989) was a Russian writer.
Biography
Golitsyn was born on 14(1) March 1909 at an estate in the Tula guberniya. His father was prin ...
was the son of Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1873–1942), and published his ''Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia'', covering the period from the revolution in 1917 to the entry of the Soviet Union into World War II in 1941.
* Nikolai Vladimirovich (1874–1942)
*
Yuri Golitsyn (1919–2002), was born in Yokohama, and was one of the founders of public relations having written the handbook on the subject and pushed research on the family forward to being published in a book. He was also a member of The Right Society and yet championed action against concentration camps after being the first allied officer to witness one firsthand (Natzweiler)
* Princess
Irene Galitzine
Princess Irene Galitzine ( ka, ირინა გალიცინი; russian: Ирен Голицына; 22 July 1916 – 20 October 2006) was a Russian-Georgian fashion designer whose best known creation was the palazzo pyjama.
Early life
...
(1916–2006), fashion designer, was the daughter of Boris Galizin (1878–1958)
*
George Vladimirovich Galitzine
George may refer to:
People
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...
(1916–1992) in whose memor
The Prince George Galitzine Memorial Librarywas founded in 1994 by his widow, Princess George Galitzine (formerly
Jean Dawnay
Jean Mary Dawnay, Princess George Galitzine (22 March 1925 – 14 December 2016) was a British fashion model, television personality, stage and film actress, who worked for Christian Dior.
Jean Mary Dawnay was born in Brighton on 22 March 1925. I ...
), and his daughter Princess Catherine (Katya) Galitzine. Prince George served with distinction in the rank of Major, Welsh Guards 1939–45. He was subsequently a diplomat and businessman. Following retirement he was active as a researcher, author and lecturer on Russia. The Prince George Galitzine Library specialises in the cultural life of St Petersburg with a collection in excess of 3000 books, photographs and documents for research tracing back to Catherine the Great. The Library occupies the palace on the Fontanka, formerly the family home of his mother Countess Catherine Carlow, daughter of Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz a younger son of Ekaterina Mikhailovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia. Through the Mecklenburg-Strelitz connection, this branch of the Galitzine family are related to many of the Royal Houses of Europe.
*
George Golitzin (1916–1963), Hollywood producer and deacon in the Orthodox Church in America.
*
Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (b. 1935), Russian physicist noted for his research on the concept of
nuclear winter
Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into t ...
.
* (1942–2018), Russian-Serbian-American banker with
Bank of New York
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY Mellon, is an American investment banking services holding company headquartered in New York City. BNY Mellon was formed from the merger of The Bank of New York and the Mellon Fina ...
who led the re-introduction of banks in the former Warsaw Pact countries including the newly formed states from the former Soviet Union.
* Bishop
Alexander (Golitzin) (b. 1948), is
Archbishop for Dallas, the South and the
Bulgarian Diocese for the
Orthodox Church in America
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA is partly recognized as autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions ...
. He is also emeritus professor of theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. His academic work focuses on the discerning the roots of eastern Christian spirituality in Second Temple Judaism.
*
Alexander Golitzen
Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), (Moscow, February 28, 1908San Diego, July 26, 2005) was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.
Born in Moscow in the princely Golitsyn family, Alexande ...
(1908–2005) was a Moscow-born production designer and oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies; he died in San Diego, California.
*
Anatoliy Golitsyn
Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn CBE ( Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Голицын; August 25, 1926 – December 29, 2008) was a Soviet KGB defector and author of two books about the long-term deception strategy of the KGB lead ...
(1926–2008) was a Soviet defector to the United States
*
Maria-Anna Galitzine
Maria-Anna Galitzine (''Maria-Anna Charlotte Zita Elisabeth Regina Therese''; born 19 May 1954), also known as Archduchess Maria-Anna of Austria and Princess Maria-Anna Galitzine, is a Belgian traditionalist Catholic activist and member of the ...
(b. 1954), wife of Prince Peter Galitzine, Catholic activist
*
Grigori Galitsin Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names.
It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels.
Grigory
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist
* Grigory Barenblatt (192720 ...
(1957–2021) was a former erotic photographer.
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Tatiana Galitzine
Princess Tatiana Petrovna Galitzine (born 16 August 1984) is an American-born architectural designer and UNICEF activist.
Biography
Princess Tatiana was born on 16 August 1984 in Santa Clara, California. She is the second of six children of Pri ...
(b. 1984) is an American architect and the daughter Prince Peter Galitzine.
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Maria Galitzine
Princess Maria Petrovna Galitzine (11 May 1988 – 4 May 2020) was a Luxembourg-born Russian interior designer.
Biography
Princess Maria was born on 11 May 1988 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg as the fourth of six children of Prince Peter Gali ...
(1988–2020) was a Russian-American interior designer and the daughter of Prince Peter Galitzine.
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Nicholas Galitzine (b. 1994), son of Prince Geoffrey Galitzine and Lora (née Papayanni),
an actor and musician, was born in London and has starred in films such as ''
High Strung'' (2016), ''
Handsome Devil'' (2016), ''
Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...
'' (2021) and
Purple Hearts (2022)
Notes
References
Bibliography
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* Golitsyn, Sergei (1909–1989): ''Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia'', 2008
* Le Donne John P. (1987) Ruling families in the Russian political order, 1689–1825 : I. The Petrine leadership, 1689–1725; II. The ruling families, 1725–1825. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, vol. 28, n°3-4, Juillet-Décembre 1987. pp. 233–322.
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Douglas Smith: ''Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
External links
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Site of Princess Irene GolitsynThe Great Russian Encyclopedia (BDE): Golitsyns – Russian princely family
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Russian noble families