Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn

Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (Russian - Владимир Борисович Голицын; 21 June 1731 - 25 December 1798, Moscow) was a Russian statesman.

Golitsyn by the Swedish painter Alexander Roslin, 1762

Life

He was the son of Boris Vasilevich Golitsyn (1705-1769) and his wife Ekaterina Ivanovna Strešneva. In 1766 he married countess Natalya Petrovna Chernyshyova, a lady in waiting to Catherine the Great. They had five children:

He died in 1798 and was buried in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

Sources

  • (in Russian) Серчевский Е. Записки о роде князей Голицыных. СПб, 1853, с. 107.
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