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 (1705–1769) and his wife Ekaterina Ivanovna Strešneva (or Streshneva). His father was the grandson of Prince Boris Alekseyevich Golitsyn, the uncle of Emperor

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. His grand-uncle was Prince

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. His mother was the granddaughter, and sole heiress, of the first

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Tikhon Streshnev.

Career

Prince Golitsyn took part in the

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, retiring with the rank of Brigadier. Reportedly, he was a simple-minded man with a poorly managed large fortune. Following his marriage, his wife began to manage their household, quickly putting it in order and significantly increasing it. In 1783, the Golitsyns left for France, traveling extensively around Europe. From 1786 to 1790, their sons attended a Parisian military school. After the start of the

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, they traveled from London to their large mansion on the Rue Saint-Florentin Paris, before returning to Russia in the autumn of 1790 at the insistence of the Empress. Upon their return, the family established itself in St Petersburg, and their home became a well-known refuge for French monarchist émigrés.

Personal life

In 1766 he married Countess Natalya Petrovna Chernyshyova, a lady in waiting to Catherine the Great. Natalya was the daughter of Ekaterina Andreyevna (daughter of Count Andrei Ivanovich Ushakov) and diplomat Pyotr Chernyshyov, who was serving as Ambassador to

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at the time of her birth. Together, Vladimir and Natalya had five children: * Pyotr Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1767–1778), who died young. * Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1769–1813), who fought in the Patriotic War of 1812 died in

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of wounds he sustained at the Battle of Borodino. * Ekaterina Vladimirovna Golitsyna (1770–1854), who married Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin, with whom she had five children. * Dmitry Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1771–1844), who married Tat'jana Vasil'evna Vasil'čikova, with whom he had five children. * Sofia Vladimirovna Golitsyna (1775–1845), who married

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, with whom she had five children. In winter they lived in the city; in summer they lived on Viaziomy Manor, 40 km to the west of Moscow. Around 1784, he reportedly commissioned the modernized architecture style of their "

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". Golitsyn died in

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on 25 December 1798 and was buried in the

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in Moscow.

References

Sources

* Серчевский Е. Записки о роде князей Голицыных. СПб, 1853, с. 107.

External links

Kniaz' Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn, 1731-1798.
at the New York Public Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Golitsyn, Vladimir Politicians of the Russian Empire 1731 births 1798 deaths