Prince Dmitry Golitsyn
Prince Dmitry Borisovich Golitsyn (1851-1920) - cavalry general, hero of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, head of the imperial hunt. Active member of the Russian Hunting Club and the Society for Proper Hunting. From his possessions comes the name of the Moscow region town of Golitsyno, the actual founder of which he is, the last private owner of the Vyazema estate. Born on November 5 (17), 1851 in the family of Adjutant General Boris Dmitrievich Golitsyn (1819-1878) and Ekaterina Vasilievna Levashova (1826-1853). Grandson of His Serene Highness Prince D.V. Golitsyn and Count V.V. Levashov. He was brought up in England and was educated at home. He entered service in 1870 and served in the Life Guards Hussar Regiment. He took part in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and was awarded the Golden Weapon “For Bravery.” In 1879-1881 he participated in the Central Asian campaigns. During the Khiva campaign he was wounded at Geok-Tepe, for which he received the Order of St. George, 4th degree. Ranks: cornet (1871), lieutenant (1873), staff captain (1875), aide-de-camp (1876), captain for military distinction with seniority from 10/7/1877 (1878), lieutenant colonel (1879), colonel for military distinction from seniority from 12/30/1880 (1881), major general with enrollment in the Retinue of His Imperial Majesty (for distinction, 08/30/1891), lieutenant general (for distinction, 12/6/1899), adjutant general (1901), cavalry general with the appointment of
Chief Jägermeister. He commanded a squadron, a hundred, a division, a battalion and the 2nd Volga (preferential) regiment of the Terek Cossack army. On November 17, 1889, he was appointed head of the Imperial Hunt, a position he held until the revolution.
Company of Palace Grenadiers, Palace Grenadiers, St. George Grenadier Company - a special separate military unit (separate company) of the central subordination of the Russian Imperial Guard of the Armed Forces of the Russian Empire, served as an honor guard during exits, celebrations and festivities in the Highest Presence, that is, under the Russian emperors. Seniority - from October 2 (14), 1827. Company holiday - December 6 (19), the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nicholas the Winter). It was unofficially called the “Golden Company” for its special (bright and spectacular) uniforms, in which red and gold colors predominated. In 1827, Emperor Nicholas I established the Company of Palace Grenadiers as a structural unit of the Ministry of the Imperial Household, reporting directly to the minister and the head of the Guards Corps. The officers and lower ranks of this company had guard ranks, a sergeant major was equivalent to an army second lieutenant, and non-commissioned officers were equivalent to army warrant officers. Grenadiers had the rank of non-commissioned officer. The grenadier company was replenished with distinguished lower ranks of the guard, army and navy - retired or who served a certain number of years in extended service and who were in campaigns, campaigns and affairs against the enemy. The most distinguished lower ranks, serving and retired, awarded the insignia of a military order or medals for campaigns, campaigns and deeds, had the right to request enrollment in the company of palace grenadiers. The appointment of all
ranks to the company of palace grenadiers was carried out by the highest order. The personal contingent of the grenadier company was recruited from honored military personnel, as a rule, St. George Knights, who were part of the Platoon of the oldest St. George Knights. The main responsibility of the company was considered to be control over maintaining order in the Winter Palace. However, according to some researchers, this was nothing more than a disguise of its real purpose: Nicholas I, with his image of a fearless warrior emperor, was embarrassed to admit that he needed protection on the territory of his own residence. But if you look at the list of palace grenadier posts in the Winter Palace, you can see that most of them were located at the chambers of the emperor and members of his family.
The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was a Russian princely family. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals, admirals, stewards, chamberlains, and provincial landlords. By the 18th century, the family was divided into four major branches. One branch died out while the other three and their subdivisions contained about 1,100 members. In the 1850s, the Russian memoirist Filipp Vigel despaired: "So numerous are the Golitsyns that soon it will be impossible to mention any of them without the family tree at hand".The family produced many well-known statesmen, among them Vasily, Boris, Dmitry and Nikolai Golitsyn, the last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire. According to legend, the family descends from Lithuanian prince Jurgis (George), son of Patrikas and grandson of Narimantas and thus a great-grandson of Gediminas (d. 1341), Grand Duke of Lithuania. After the extinction of the Korecki family in the 17th century, the Golitsyns claimed dynastic seniority in the House of Gediminas. Prince George immigrated to the court of Vasily I of Moscow and married Vasily's sister. His children and grandchildren, among
them Vassian Patrikeyev, were considered premier Russian boyars. One of them, Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Bulgark (The Bulgarian), earned the nickname Golitsa (glove, geležìs in Old Lithuanian) for an iron (or strong leather) glove he wore in the Battle of Orsha in 1514. His son Yuri Mikhailovich Bulgakov continued with the family line Golytsin and his great-grandson Prince Vasily Golitsyn was claimant to the Russian throne during the Time of Troubles and went as an ambassador to Poland to offer the Russian crown to Prince Władysław; he died in prison. Prince (knyaz) Andrey Andreyevich Golitsyn (d. 1638), governor of Siberia (1633–1635), was the ancestor of all existing princes Golitsyns.
Awards: Sash and star of the Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir, Star and cross of the Imperial Order of Saint George, Stars of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, the Imperial Order of Saint Stanislaus and the Order of the Dannebrog.
