Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn 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, master of the horse, and historian Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna. Among his siblings were Yelizaveta Golitsyna, 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 and Vera Vasilchikova, were raised by their aunt, Countess Anna Protasova, 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. In 1837, his wife with their children 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 and a Bogorodsky District Marshal of Nobility.Personal life
In 1817, Prince Golitsyn married Elżbieta Antonovna Zlotnitskoy, a Polish girl who was in love with a famous poet Denis Davydov, in Kiev. Together, they were the parents of:- Anton Pavlovich Golitsyn, who married Adélaïde Marie Angèle de Molette de Morangiès in Paris in 1843.
- Mariya Petrovna Golitsyn, who married Count Ferdinand Louise Marie de Bertier de Sauvigny at the Château de Frémigny in 1840.
- Augustin Petrovich Golitsyn, 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, in Chenonceaux in 1844.
- Pyotr Petrovich Golitsyn, 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, who married Polish nobleman, Count Arsen Antoni Ludwik Moszczeński.