page_title: Konstantin Poltoratsky
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Konstantin Poltoratsky / Family
caption_attribution_description: Софья Борисовна Полторацкая, ур. Голицына (15.08.1795 - 19.11.1871), фрейлина.
context_page_description: Konstantin Markovich Poltoratsky was a Yaroslavl Military and Civil Governor, lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army, a participant of five wars, including the French invasion of Russia.
context_section_description: Wife – on August 18, 1818, in Pavlovsk, married Princess Sofya Borisovna Golitsyna (April 15, 1795 – November 19, 1871), daughter of Lieutenant-General Prince Boris Golitsyn; the maid of honor of the highest court and the cavalier lady of the Order of Saint Catherine of the Lesser Cross; for which he received a dowry of more than 1,000 souls of serfs in Kozelsky and Novotorzhsky counties. She was raised by a Frenchwoman from the retinue of the Duchess of Polignac. According to contemporaries, Madame Poltoratskaya was "definitely not beautiful, but pretty, she spoke well and courteously, which was already a charm". In her Yaroslavl parlor, Marquis de Custine, by his own admission, felt like "in London or rather in Petersburg". Widowed, she lived in the capital in the house of her sister, the famous philanthropist Tatiana Potemkina on Millionnaya Street, 22, where she died suddenly from cardiac arrest. Buried next to her husband in the Sergius Monastery. As noted by relative:
  Son – Boris Konstantinovich (January 9, 1820 – February 10, 1850), the captain of the Life Guards Regiment of His Majesty, died unmarried.
caption: Sofya Borisovna Golitsyna
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