Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn

He was the eldest son of Prince Alexei Andreevich Golitsyn (1767–1800), master of the horse, and historian Alexandra Petrovna Golitsyna (1774–1842).

[4] In 1837, his wife with their children (three sons and one daughter) had moved abroad, the prince bought land in Paris, France, where he settled with his family.

[2] In 1817, Prince Golitsyn married Elżbieta Antonovna Zlotnitskoy (1800–1866), a Polish girl who was in love with a famous poet Denis Davydov, in Kiev.

His widow died in Blamont, in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, in December 1866.

Through his son Augustin, he was a grandfather of Princess Sophie Galitzine (1858–1883),[11] who married the French aristocrat Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny.

Portrait of his Pyotr and his mother, Alexandra , by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun , 1794.
Portrait of his granddaughter, Princess Sophie Galitzine, by Charles Joshua Chaplin , 1878