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Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (22 January 1792 – 16 October 1842) was a Russian prince, a member of the Patriotic War and foreign campaigns, and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy.
In 1817, Prince Golitsyn married Elżbieta Antonovna Zlotnitskoy (1800–1866), a Polish girl who was in love with a famous poet Denis Davydov, in Kiev. Together, they were the parents of:
* Anton Pavlovich Golitsyn (1818–1883), who married Adélaïde Marie Angèle de Molette de Morangiès in Paris in 1843.
* Mariya Petrovna Golitsyn (1820–1890), who married Count Ferdinand Louise Marie de Bertier de Sauvigny at the Château de Frémigny in 1840.
* Augustin Petrovich Golitsyn (1823–1875), who married Stéphanie de la Roche Aymon, a daughter of Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, Marquis de La Roche-Aymon and Marie Louise Vallet de Villeneuve (who owned the
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (22 January 1792 – 16 October 1842) was a Russian prince, a member of the Patriotic War and foreign campaigns, and a Catholic convert from Russian Orthodoxy.
Early life
Prince Golitsyn was born on 22 January 1792 inMoscow
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, Russian Empire
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. He was the eldest son of Prince Alexei Andreevich Golitsyn (1767–1800), master of the horse, and historian 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 ...
(1774–1842). Among his siblings were Yelizaveta Golitsyna
Sister Yelizaveta Alexeyevna Golitsyna (also Elizabeth Gallitzin) (born on 22 February 1797, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - died on 26 November 1844, Louisiana, United States) was a Russians, Russian noble and Catholic Church, Catholic nun, w ...
, who became a nun.
His maternal grandparents were Senator and Lt.-Gen. Pyotr Stepanovich Protasov, and Anna Ivanovna. His mother and her sister, including writer Catherine Rostopchin
Countess Yekaterina Petrovna Rostopchina (russian: Екатерина Петровна Ростопчина; 1776 – 14 September 1859) was a Russian aristocrat and writer. She was married to Fyodor Rostopchin, who served as governor of Moscow ...
and Vera Vasilchikova
Vera Vasilchikova (née Protasova, 1780 – 2 October 1814) was a maid of honour, the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine (1814).
Biography
Vera Vasilchikova was one of the daughters of ...
, were raised by their aunt, Countess Anna Protasova
Countess Anna Stepanovna Protasova (Анна Степановна Протасова; 1745–1826) was a lady-in-waiting and noblewoman who was a confidant of Empress Catherine the Great in the Russian Empire.
Life
She was the daughter of Sena ...
, a personal friend of the Empress Catherine II.
Career
In 1820, under the influence of his wife and her mother, he converted from Russian Orthodoxy to Catholicism (his mother had officially converted to Catholicism in May 1818). In 1837, his wife with their children (three sons and one daughter) had moved abroad, the prince bought land inParis
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, France, where he settled with his family. He retired as a captain in 1838 from the Patriotic Wars against Napoleon
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and a Bogorodsky District Marshal of Nobility.
Personal life
In 1817, Prince Golitsyn married Elżbieta Antonovna Zlotnitskoy (1800–1866), a Polish girl who was in love with a famous poet Denis Davydov, in Kiev. Together, they were the parents of:
* Anton Pavlovich Golitsyn (1818–1883), who married Adélaïde Marie Angèle de Molette de Morangiès in Paris in 1843.
* Mariya Petrovna Golitsyn (1820–1890), who married Count Ferdinand Louise Marie de Bertier de Sauvigny at the Château de Frémigny in 1840.
* Augustin Petrovich Golitsyn (1823–1875), who married Stéphanie de la Roche Aymon, a daughter of Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, Marquis de La Roche-Aymon and Marie Louise Vallet de Villeneuve (who owned the Château de Châtain
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Nowaday ...
in Arfeuille-Châtain
Arfeuille-Châtain (; oc, Arfuelha Chastenh) is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in central France.
Geography
An area of lakes, forestry and farming comprising several hamlets situated some northeast of Aubu ...
), in Chenonceaux
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It is situated in the valley of the river Cher, a tributary of the Loire, about 26 km (16 mi) east of Tours and on ...
in 1844.
* Pyotr Petrovich Golitsyn (1827–1902), who married Yuliya Aleksandrovna Chertkova in St. Petersburg in 1850. After her death in 1864, he married Natalia Alexandrovna Kozakov in 1871.
* Aleksandra Petrovna Golitsyn (1830–1917), who married Polish nobleman, Count Arsen Antoni Ludwik Moszczeński.
Prince Golitsyn died in Paris on 16 October 1842. His widow died in Blamont
Blamont () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Doubs department
Famous inhabitants
* The writer Charles François Philibert Masson Charles Fran ...
, in the Doubs
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
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region
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in eastern France
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, in December 1866.
Descendants
Through his son Augustin, he was a grandfather of Princess Sophie Galitzine (1858–1883), who married the French aristocrat Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes andPicquigny
Picquigny () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
Picquigny is situated at the junction of the N235, the D141 and D3 roads, on the banks of the river Somme, some northwest (and downstream) of ...
. They were the parents of Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes (who married Louis de Crussol d'Uzès, 14th Duke of Uzès
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in 1894) and Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes
Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (10 April 1878 – 24 April 1908) was a French nobleman.
Early life
Luynes was born in Paris on 10 April 1878. He was the eldest son of Princess Sophie Galitzine ...
, 11th Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (who married American heiress Theodora Mary Shonts
Theodora Mary d'Albert, Duchess of Chaulnes (née Theodora Mary Shonts; March 21, 1882 – 19 October 1966) was an American heiress who married into the French nobility.
Early life
Theodora was born in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 1882. Theodora ...
in 1908).
References
External links
* http://www.nasledie-smolensk.ru/pkns/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2712&Itemid=126 * http://ru.rodovid.org/wk/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C:164473 * https://archive.today/20130703061647/http://www.gzhatsk.net/history_gzhatsk_villages/istoriya_derevni_stolbovo.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallitzin, Peter 1792 births 1842 deaths Russian princes Pyotr Alexeyevich Converts to Roman Catholicism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Russian Roman Catholics