House of Golitsyn
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The House of Golitsyn is the second largest and noblest Princely house in Russia. Among its members were voivodes, landlords, knyazes, knights, diplomats, Prime Ministers, admirals, stewards, State Co
Vasily Golitsyn. The Velvet Book was an official register of genealogies of Russia's most illustrious families (Russian nobility).
Golitsyn Palace in Gaspra (Crimea)
Dubrovitsy Estate
Vyazyomy Manor
Anna of Russia
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Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from
House of Golitsyn
…into exile. He returned in 1726, after the death of Peter I. Mikhail Alekseyevich Golitsyn (1687–1775) nicknamed "the fool" was punished by Empress Anna of Russia for converting to Catholicism in order to marry an Italian or German woman. This marriage was declared illegal and she appointed him court jester in…
Portrait by Louis Caravaque, 1730
Coinage of Anna of Russia
Empress Anna abrogates the "Conditions"
In this 1878 painting by Valery Jacobi, the scared newlyweds Mikhail Golitsyn and Avdotya Buzheninova sit on the icy bed to the left; the jocular woman in golden dress is Empress Anna.