New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
PRINCE GALITZINE.
His Coming Recalls American Epi.
sodes of His Family History.

s.-opy-izht 1905. by the Brentwood Company
r,--,ce Andrew Galitzine- who is now on the
Ian bound fog New York to attend the wedding
q ITS k.zs-aan. the Due de chaunes. belongs like
-. latter's mother. who born as Princess
.--,.s lssif-zne. branch OF the Galitzine fam
81 which can scarcely be regarded Russian.
- early in the last century they became con-
Is 70 Roman Catholicism and were in conse-
,,,s,oe thereof compelled 10 leave Russia and to
.t--7tt 10 the condscaticn Of their estates owing
= WHICH they are extremely poor. Ever since their
,,,rlsjon from Russia they have made their home
=, France and IN Switzerland
The Galitzines are descended from Guedirninus.
Grand Prince Of Lithuania, who flourished in the
xou-1eeuth century and who was the founder Of
.be JscelIon dynasty The name OF Galitzine is
se-s,-e5 from 'salitza' that is to say a rauntle.
tscb TIE immediate ancestor Of the family name
X Michael Boulgakof was accustomed to al
-svs wear on his right hand, never being seen
without IL Prince Basil Galitzine was one of the
.,-- candidates for the throne of Russia II, 1910
hrt gave way. like the Troubetzkois of his day in
.s4or q Michael Ronanot, from whom the pres
Ell Car is descended
Whole columns would be needed TO enun,erate
the names Of the statesmen. great generals and
shle administrators whom the house of C;alitzine
has gwen 70 Russia 1t is 10 wasiu GaIitzine that
Russia really the conquest of the C-rirnea To
Michael Ga-itzne the acquisition Of Finland and
70 Deret-ius GalitZine the possession of Ii,Iand
Another De1nerrlus Galitzine was the ;ntfr,..+.
friend and patron IN Russia of VoItai-e Prince
se-e!us GzI;tztne devoted the greater mart of his
immense fortune 10 the intellectual develonren+ e
his fellow countryrnen and 10 the endowment Of
a. sc-rs o< educational and scientific institutions
One Prince Gslitzine died as Ambassador Al Wien,
ra and lies buried OF "a hill which was in his
GAYS Just the gates OF the Austrian csni,aI and
Is knovn to this day as GaIitzinberg Then -be,a
WIS 1hat Prince Galitzine who behaved so snlen
didy as Governor General of Moscow during the
great cholera epidemic, giving up his entire sal
s-y and allowances TO the relief OF the stricken
sr6 spending his days in visiting the various hos
r-sls
Finally there vas that Prince John GaIitzine who
.as grand master OF the household of the now
widowed Empress, her favor1te dancer her constant
attendant a-c tae close friend and mentor of the
present Gar. ne was with the latter in England
throughout Aichoiass courtshp Of Princess alfx
o. Essss ard there are few -nen who enjoy a
greater reputation for briHaucv and VIII :, london
znd L Paris or N ST Petersburg than this John
Gallz1e. His sister. Countess Oblokon was shot
desd sone years ago by her husband the general
Of that -2-1e, while she was walking along the
Neysky Prospect Al St Petersburg with 2 former
side-os-ce12p Of the generals, at d moment when
ths promenade was thronged with all the rank and
FASHION c. the capital The general besides killing
his Tlie ro-taliy wounded the young officer Al
exender II, curing whose reign this tragedy oc-
Cured he'd that the general had been temporarily
herttt @ lis reason by Jealousy for which there
sss soe ground, and, accordingly instead OF deal
ing with him ordinary murderer consigned him
to the terrible Solovetsk prison--n monastery near
A-cls1ss-. spend the remainder Of his oavs in :
prayer and fasting, shut Of from all colrnunica-
tioa and Intercourse with the outer world.