Grigory Golitsyn

Prince Grigory Sergeyevich Golitsyn (Russian: Григорий Серге́евич Голицын; 20 December 1838 – 28 March 1907) was a Russian general and statesman from the princely Golitsyn family.

Grigory Golitsyn
Golitsyn in 1897
Born20 December [O.S. 1 January] 1838[1]
Died28 March [O.S. 10 April] 1907[1]
Alma materGeneral Staff Academy[1]
OccupationMilitary commander
FamilyLev Golitsyn (brother)
AwardsOrder of Saint Alexander Nevsky (1895)
Order of Saint Vladimir (1904)[1]

Golitsyn fought in the Caucasian War, studied at the General Staff Academy, and commanded several regiments. In 1876, was appointed Governor of Ural Oblast; he later served in a variety of positions in other regions.[2]

Between 1897 and 1904 Golitsyn was the Governor of Transcaucasia; known as the initiator of the confiscation of the properties of the Armenian Church.[3] He was wounded in an assassination attempt near Tiflis in October 1903.[4]

References

  1. ГОЛИ́ЦЫН Гри­го­рий Сер­гее­вич. Great Russian Encyclopedia
  2. Vitte, Sergéj Júl'jevič (1990). The Memoirs of Count Witte. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-87332-571-4. Note the author's bias.
  3. Altstadt, Audrey L. (2013). The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule. Stanford, California: Hoover Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-8179-9183-8.
  4. Swietochowski, Tadeusz (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community (first paperback ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-521-52245-8.


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