Galitzin

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Coat of arms of the Princes Galitzin
In the coat of arms of the Galitzin family: the Lithuanian horseman

The House of Galitzin (Cyrillic: Голицын; also Galizyn , Golizyn , Gallitzin ) is a Russian princely dynasty of Lithuanian descent , whose male ancestor was Grand Duke Gediminas , who was also the progenitor of the Jagiellonians and the Trubezkoi dynasty . One of his descendants, Ivan Bulgak , to the thick leather gloves (golitza), which he wore on wool gloves, nicknamed Golitsyn (pronounced Galizyn have received) and passed on to his descendants.

Fate under communism

Of the numerous branches of the princely noble family of Galicin that existed in 1917, only one survived in the Soviet Union; all others were destroyed or forced into exile. The Bolsheviks arrested dozens of Galizins only to be shot or killed in the gulag; another dozen disappeared in the storm of the revolution, and their fate remained unknown. Today more Galizins live in the US than in Russia.

Sergei Golitsyn (1909–1989) wrote "Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia"; The book covers the period from the revolution in 1917 to the Soviet Union's entry into World War II in 1941. The fate of the Galitzin / Golizyn family is also one of the focal points of the book by the historian Douglas Smith on the fall of the Russian aristocracy during the Soviet regime.

Name bearer

literature

  • Douglas Smith: The Last Dance. The fall of the Russian aristocracy. From the American by Bernd Rullkötter. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-19777-4 (Orig .: Former People. The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy , 2012).

Web links

Commons : Galitzin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon, p. 847, under Galizyn