Nikolai Golitsyn

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Knyaz (Prince) Nikolai Dmitriyevitch Galitsyn (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Голицын, Nikolaj Dmitrievič Golicyn) (April 12, 1850 - July 2, 1925) was a member of the Galitzine family. He was the last Tsarist prime minister of Russia from January 1917 until his government fell during the revolution of March 1917, when the Tsar was also forced to abdicate. Prior to being appointed prime minister he had been a deputy chairman of one of Empress Alexandra's charity commissions. He did not want to be prime minister and asked Tsar Nicholas II 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, on the suspicion of connection with counterrevolutionaries. After his third arrest (on February 12, 1925), on the decision of the OGPU board of June 22, 1925, he was shot to death on July 2, 1925, in Leningrad.

[edit] Reference

• Massie, Robert K., Nicholas and Alexandra, New York, Ballantine Books, 1967, ISBN 0-345-43831-0.

Preceded by Alexander Trepov

Prime Minister of Russia January 9, 1917—March 12, 1917

Succeeded by Georgy Lvov

Prime Ministers of Russia, 1905-1917
Russian Empire: Sergei Witte • Ivan Goremykin • Pyotr Stolypin • Vladimir Kokovtsov • Ivan Goremykin • Boris Stürmer • Alexander Trepov • Nikolai Golitsyn Russian Provisional Government: Georgy L'vov • Alexander Kerensky