Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn

Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn

Golitsyn's tomb

Daria Alexejewna Golitsyn (1772)

Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn ( Russian Александр Михайлович Голицын ; born November 6 ^{. Jul} / 17th November  1718 ^greg. In Turku , † September 27 ^{. Jul} / 8. October  1783 ^{. Greg} St. Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat and field marshal .

Life

Origin and family

Alexander was a member of gediminidischen princely family Golitsyn . He was a son of the Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1675-1730) and his wife Tatiana Borisovna, née Kurakina (1690-1757).

From 1748 he was married to Princess Darja Alexejewna Gagarinа (1724–1789). The marriage remained without children.

Career

Golitsyn entered the military at a young age. In 1731 he was an ensign in the Preobrazhensky Regiment and fought at the age of seventeen in the War of the Polish Succession under Prince Eugene of Savoy on the Rhine . In 1740 he returned to Russia and received the rank of captain . In the meantime he is said to have been a member of the Russian embassy in Constantinople . He was appointed chamberlain in 1744 . After 1748 he was ambassador to Hamburg , but in 1757 he withdrew from the diplomatic corps.

By the Seven Years' War he had advanced to lieutenant general . In Frankfurt / Oder he was wounded, also attended the costly battle of anger village and victorious at Kunersdorf , where he was wounded again, in part. For his essential work in front of Kunersdorf he received the Alexander Nevsky Order and was appointed General en chef . After the peace agreement , he led the army back to Livonia .

After taking power, Catherine II honored Golitsyn with the Order of St. Andrew and appointed him adjutant general . Since November 1762 he was active in various commissions and at the same time entrusted with military leadership tasks in St. Petersburg, and since 1767 in Livonia. When the 5th Russian Turkish War broke out in 1768, Catherine II appointed him commander in chief of the 1st Army. He besieged the fortress Chotin twice without success until he was finally able to march there on September 9, 1769. Back in St. Petersburg he was appointed field marshal.

Golitsyn became a member of the council of the Supreme Court in 1769 and was promoted to senator in December 1774 . He was then again active in various commissions. On September 22, 1782 he was one of the first eleven knights of the Order of St. Vladimir 1st class. In 1775 and from 1780 to 1783 he was chief in St. Petersburg. He was the bearer of the golden sword for bravery .

Golitsyn was buried in the Church of the Annunciation .

literature

• Александр Михайлович Голицыны In: Военная энциклопедия , Volume 8, 1912, pp. 362-366 ( Wikisource ; Russian)

Web links

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• Александр Михайлович Голицын (Russian)
• 25-й Генералъ-Фельдмаршалъ Князь Александръ Михайловичь Голицынъ (Russian)