
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 in
Moscow,
Russian Empire. 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 in
Paris, France, where he settled with his family. He retired as a captain in 1838 from the
Patriotic Wars against
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
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
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
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
Chenonceaux () is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, and the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.
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 department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in the
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern
France, 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 and
Picquigny
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 Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewi ...
, 14th
Duke of Uzès
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of Royal family, royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, t ...
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
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1792 births
1842 deaths
Russian princes
Pyotr Alexeyevich
Converts to Roman Catholicism
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy
Former Russian Orthodox Christians
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