Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna

[citation needed] Alexandra was the daughter of a senator, Lieutenant-General Pyotr Stepanovich Protasov (1730–1794), and his wife Anna Ivanovna (1750–1782).

She and her four sisters were orphaned early in life and were raised by their aunt, Anna Protasov, a chambermaid of some note, and a personal friend of the Empress Catherine II, who was under the care of Madame de Pont.

Protasov gave her nieces a great education by the standards of the time: the studies focused on foreign languages, including Latin, Greek, and Russian.

At the request of their aunt, the sisters, one still unmarried at the time of the Coronation of Alexander I of Russia, each received the title of Countess.

The countess' two daughters and four sons: In the 1830s, under the patronage of a Princess, Alexandra looked after the blind poet Ivan Kozlov, who often mentioned her in his diary, with great tenderness.

Excerpts from her written prayers and thoughts were published by her grandson Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin in his book Vie d'une religieuse du Sacre-coeur.