was an official register of genealogies of Russia's most illustrious families (
Russian nobility). (Crimea) (1810),
National Museum in Warsaw , 20 in
Khamovniki District, later Golitsyn family Prince (
knyaz) Andrey Andreyevich Golitsyn (), 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: • Vasily (1618–1652) – branch Vasilyevich • Ivan () – branch Ivanovich, which ended in 1751 in a monastery • Alexey (1632–1694) – branch Alexeevich •
Michael (1639–1687) – branch Mikhailovich 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
Anna of Russia 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 or a female jester from
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) •
Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1773–1844), was a lifelong bachelor, homosexual and reactionary minister of education in the government of
Alexander I. He headed an investigation into
masonic involvement in the
Decembrist 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. • Aleksey Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1723–1765) was the ancestor 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 (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" of 1697–98; owner of the estates
Bolshiye Vyazyomy 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 (1731–1798) was a Russian statesman; his wife
Natalya Golitsyna 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). In 1783 she moved with her daughters
Ekaterina 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 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. 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. •
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. He fought in the
Battle of Tarutino,
Vyazma, and
Krasny. In 1814 he was promoted to the rank of full
General of the Cavalry. 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. • 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 (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, a supporter of the
physiocrats, 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 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. In 1792 he embarked to Baltimore. He was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States; a settlement in Pennsylvania is named after him. He is currently under investigation for possible
sainthood, his current title being
Servant of God. • Pyotr Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1660–1722)
Branch Mikhailovich •
Mikhail Andreyevich Golitsyn (1639–1687) was governor of Smolensk, Kiev and Kursk. •
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Elder (1665–1737) opposed Peter's reforms. In 1727 he became a member of the
Supreme Privy Council, which governed for
Peter II of Russia. He was condemned to death (1736) for his anti-autocratic beliefs, but
Anna of Russia commuted his sentence to
life imprisonment. Noted for his attempt to turn Russia into a
constitutional monarchy; Russia lived without autocracy for only 37 days. Owner of
Arkhangelskoye Palace. •
Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (Field Marshal) (Sr) (1675–1730) is best known for his governorship of
Old Finland (1714–1721), where his harsh rule is remembered by the people he had conquered as the
Greater Wrath (Swedish:
Stora ofreden); member of the Supreme Privy Council. He was married twice and had 18 children. •
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1718–1783) was
field-marshal wounded at the
Battle of Kunersdorf, an envoy in Hamburg, Constantinople, ambassador in Dresden, and
governor of Saint Petersburg, involved in the development of
New Holland Island. •
Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn the Younger (1721–1793) was the Russian ambassador in Vienna. He married
Ekaterina, a daughter of the
Moldovan historian and composer
Dimitrie Cantemir, and was the brother-in-law of
Antiochus Cantemir. 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 (1766–1822) was a Russian general but was dismissed in 1800. He was friendly with
Pyotr Bagration who died of
gangrene on his estate at
Sima, Vladimir Oblast. Boris joined the Napoleonic wars including three sons. • Prince
Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin (1794–1866) was a military historian, an amateur cellist who commissioned
Beethoven in 1822 to write his last
string quartets, 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) (Jr) (1684–1764) was general admiral of the Russian fleet (1756); member of the Supreme Privy Council. •
Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (vice chancellor) (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. • Alexey Andreevich Golitsyn (1767–1800) married
Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna •
Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn (1792–1842), a Catholic convert who moved to Paris • 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. 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==