Prozorovsky

During the Muscovite period of Russian history, the most eminent member of the family was Prince Ivan Semyonovich Prozorovsky, a boyar's son and boyar himself, who happened to govern Astrakhan at the time of Stenka Razin's uprising.

Ivan's inglorious death only added to the family standing, and six of his nephews became boyars during the early reign of Peter the Great.

Prince Ivan Andreyevich Prozorovsky, an Elizabethan general-in-chief, helped launch the military career of his son-in-law, Alexander Suvorov.

When the Russian army resumed its hostilities against Turkey in 1808, Prozorovsky became its Commander-in-Chief.

Galitzine's line became extinct in 1914, with the death of his only son, Prince Alexander Galitzine-Prozorovsky (1853-1914).