The Galitzines claim their seniority in the Russian dynasty of the Gediminas (the Gediminids ) which has existed since the 13th century . Descendants of this family in Europe and Western Countries write their name in the form Galitzine. The family is among the first Russian aristocratic dynasties and its members bear the honorific predicate His Serene Highness.[1][2]
The family produced many well-known statesmen, among them
“Vir est Vis”, or "man himself is power”, is the Golitsyn family motto.
According to legend, the family descends from Lithuanian prince Jurgis (George), son of Patrikas and grandson of Narimantas and thus a great-grandson of Gediminas (d. 1341), Grand Duke of Lithuania.[c] After the extinction of the Korecki family in the 17th century, the Golitsyns claimed dynastic seniority in the House of Gediminas.
Vasily Golitsyn. The Velvet Book was an official register of genealogies of Russia's most illustrious families (Russian nobility).Golitsyn Palace in Gaspra (Crimea)Dubrovitsy EstateVyazyomy Manor
National Museum
in WarsawDmitriy Vladimirovich Golitsyn. Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn, a 1772 portrait by Dmitry LevitzkyHouse of Prince Golitsyn on Fontanka, 20Arkhangelskoye PalaceGolitsyn Hospital
Golitsyn family
Sergey Mikhailovich Golytsin, the founder of the hospital, by V. Tropinin
Prince (knyaz) Andrey Andreyevich Golitsyn (d. 1638), governor of Siberia (1633–1635), 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 (d. 1690) – branch Ivanovich, which ended in 1751 in a monastery
By the 18th century, the family was divided into four major branches. One branch died out while the other three and their subdivisions contained about 1,100 members.
Branch Vasilyevich
Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn (1643–1714) was a leading boyar, a Russian statesman, combining military duties with civilian pursuits, de facto head of the government during the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna (1682–1689) over her brother Ivan 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 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
Kamchatka. The "mock wedding" which took place inside a two-room ice palace on the Neva 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)
Neo-Gothic style
.
Aleksey Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1723–1765) was the ancestor of
Imperial Russia
.
Branch Alexeevich
Aleksey Andreyevich Golitsyn (1632–1694), governor of Siberia, of Kiev.
Boris Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1769–1813) was a Russian aristocrat who received his education in Strasbourg (1782), and attended the École militaire 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.[5] In 1803, Boris Vladimirovich received the estate of Vyazemy from Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1729–1799), interested in agriculture, horse breeding, but without issue.[6] Boris fought in the battle of Smolensk, was wounded in the battle of Borodino and died in Vilnius
Alexei Ivanovich Golitsyn (1707–1739) died of plague in Constantinople.
Ivan Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1729–1767)
Pyotr Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1731–1810)
abolition of serfdom. After 1789 he continued to defend his principles and never returned to Russia.[10] 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.
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.[15]
Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1731–1804) was married to the wealthy Anna Alexandrovna Stroganova (1739–1816), who brought the estate Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki as a dowry.
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1772–1821) was an art collector.
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.[16] In 1817 he inherited the estate in Grebnevo, Moscow Oblast. As he died without issue the inheritance went to his nephew, the bibliophile, who died the year after.
19th century
Valerian Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1803-1859) was the only
Decembrist
from the Golitsyn family who was convicted and sentenced to exile in Siberia.
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
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
Prince Alexei Vasilyevich Golitsyn (1832–1901) was a friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Like the composer, Golitsyn was homosexual; but unlike the composer, he lived openly with his lover, Nikolay Vasilyevich Masalitinov (-1884).[17]
Boris Dmitrievich Golitsyn (1819-1878) was the son of Dmitry Golitsyn. He inherited Bolshiye Vyazyomy in 1844. He was the father of Dmitry B. Golitsyn (1851-1920), who was the last owner.
Leningrad
on the charge of participating in a "counter-revolutionary monarchist organization"
Prince
Transcaucasia
in 1897–1904. His brother was
champagne wines. In 1889 the production of this winery won the gold medal at the Paris exhibition in the nomination for sparkling wines. He became the surveyor of imperial vineyards at Abrau-Dyurso
in 1891.
Anna Nikolaevna Golitsyna (1859–1929) married
Grigory Rasputin. Rodzianko became one of the key politicians during the Russian February Revolution
The Bolsheviks arrested dozens of Golitsyns only to be shot or killed in the Gulag; dozens disappeared in the storm of the revolution and the Russian Civil War, and their fate remained unknown.[18]
Tretyakov gallery)
Prince Galatzine (Galitzine), 5th husband of Aimée Crocker
Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1873–1942) was the son of Vladimir Mikhailovich Golitsyn (Paris, 1847-1932) and grandson of Mikhail Fedorovich Golitsyn (1800-1873); Nikolai V. Golitsyn (1874–1942) was his brother
Vladimir Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1902–1943) started his 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. Vladimir died from exhaustion and under-nourishment in the Sviyazhska prison camp near Kazan.
Alexander Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1876-1951). His son was Prince Alexander Golitzen (1908–2005) a Moscow-born production designer and oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies; he died in San Diego, California.
Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1909-1989) 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.[19]
Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1935-) was a Russian physicist noted for his research on the concept of nuclear winter.
Aimee Crocker. She was 61 and it was her fifth marriage. She offered him $250 a month if he would marry her in exchange for the right to call herself a princess.[20]
Two years later they divorced. He was forced to pay all the court costs of the suit. His brother was
Leo Alexandrovich Galitzine, count Osterman (1904–1969) escaped from Soviet Russia and came to settle in Canada by 1929 in Edson, Alberta.[21] He and his wife, Marguerite Therese Reynaud-Carcasse, purchased 420 acres of land, mostly bordering the McLeod River.[22] The Galitzines started an airplane charter company at Great Bear Lake. After his wife died (in Alexandria in 1934),[23] Leo moved to Hollywood where he was acting in various films as an extra, including in The Razor's Edge and The Chocolate Soldier.[24]
Princess Irene Galitzine (1916–2006), fashion designer, was the daughter of Boris Lvovich Galizin (1878–1958)
The graves of Princes George and Emanuel Galitzine, Brompton Cemetery, London
Prince George Vladimirovich Galitzine (1916–1992) 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. In his memory The Prince George Galitzine Memorial Library
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.[27]
George Golitzin (1916–1963) was a Hollywood producer and deacon in the Orthodox Church in America.[28]
Yuri Golitsyn (1919–2002), was born in Yokohama,[29] 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)[30]
Anatoliy Golitsyn Mikhaylovich (1926–2008) was a Soviet defector to the United States
Bank of New York who led the re-introduction of banks in the former Warsaw Pact countries including the newly formed states from the former Soviet Union.[31][32][33][34]
Bishop Alexander Golitzin (1948-) is
Bulgarian Diocese for the Orthodox Church in America.[35] He is also emeritus professor of theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His academic work focuses on the discerning the roots of eastern Christian spirituality in Second Temple Judaism.[36]
Piotr Dmitriyevich Galitzine (1955-) was the son of Dmitry Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1914-1976). He married to Maria-Anna von Habsburg, better known as Maria-Anna Galitzine, a Catholic activist
: Galitzine (French), Galitzin (German), Golicyn (Italian) or Golitsin (Spanish), etc.
^The Russian letter O is pronounced [o] when it is stressed and it is pronounced like A [a] or an unclear schwa [ə] when it is not stressed. This is called vowel reduction, and is an important characteristic of Russian pronunciation.
Volynsky
).
^All living members of the House of Golitsyn are also descendants of Ivan the Great and his second wife Sophia Palaiologina.[4] through their daughter Eudoxia Ivanovna (1492–1513) who married Peter (born Kudaikul), son of Ibrahim, Khan of Kazan, whose daughter Anastasia Petrova married Fyodor Mstislavsky.
References
^ abJean-Marie Thiébaud , A great princely family of Russia, the Galitzines. Genealogy and historical notes , Paris, 1997.
^Alexandre Galitzine, The Princes Galitzine, Washington DC, Victor Graphics,2002
^Golitsyn, princely family // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). – SPb. , 1890–1907.
^ abRzewski 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.
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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