Nikolai Golitsyn
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Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevitch Galitsyn was a member of the Galitzine
Galitzine
For Orthodox clergyman and theologian, see Alexander Golitzin.The Galitzines are one of the largest and noblest princely houses of Russia. Since the extinction of the Korecki family in the 17th century, the Golitsyns have claimed dynastic seniority in the House of Gediminas...

 family. He was the last Imperial prime minister
Prime Minister of Russia
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 of Russia
Russia
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 from January 1917 until his government fell during the revolution of March 1917
Russian Revolution of 1917
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, when the Tsar was also forced to abdicate.

Biography

Graduate of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum
Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
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. Entered the Ministry of the Interior (1871). Governor of the gubernias of Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk Governorate
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 (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
State Council of Imperial Russia
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 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
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 commissions. He did not want to be prime minister and asked Tsar Nicholas II
Nicholas II of Russia
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 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
State Political Directorate
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, 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
Leningrad
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.

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