Nicholas Galitzine

N.D. Golitsyn

Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevitch Galitsyn (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Голицын, 12 April 1850 — 2 July 1925) was a member of the Galitzine family. He was the last Imperial prime minister of Russia from January 1917 until his government fell during the revolution of March 1917, when the Tsar was also forced to abdicate.

Biography

Graduate of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. Entered the Ministry of the Interior (1871). Governor of the gubernias of Arkhangelsk (1885), Kaluga (1893), Tver (1897). Appointed Senator (1903).

Plenipotentiary of the Red Cross in Turgai and Uralsk oblasts and Saratov Gubernia to organize help in the famine-stricken areas (1907-1908).

Member of the State Council and chairman of the commission to render assistance to the Russian prisoners of war abroad (1915).

Prior to being appointed prime minister he had been a deputy chairman of one of Empress Alexandra's charity commissions. He did not want to be prime minister and asked Tsar Nicholas II to appoint someone else.

After the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks, Golitsyn remained in Russia, earning his living by repairing shoes and by maintaining public vegetable gardens. Although he was not occupied with political activity, during the period from 1920 to 1924 he was twice arrested by the organs TO VCHK-OGPU, on the suspicion of connection with counterrevolutionaries. After his third arrest (on 12 February 1925), on the decision of the OGPU board of 22 June 1925, he was executed on 2 July 1925, in Leningrad.

His son, Prince Alexander, in exile married the Imperial princess Maria Petrovna of Russia, daughter of Grand Duke Peter.

References

• V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
• Massie, Robert K., Nicholas and Alexandra, New York, Ballantine Books, 1967, ISBN 0-345-43831-0.

Political offices
Preceded by Alexander Trepov	Prime Minister of Russia 9 January 1917 — 12 March 1917	Succeeded by Georgy Lvov as Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government

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Name	Golitsyn, Nikolai
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Date of birth	12 April 1850
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Date of death	2 July 1925
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