Aleksandr Golitsyn

Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn (;  – ) - was a Russian envoy to Great Britain, Vice-Chancellor, representative of the younger branch of the House of Golitsyn. Full Privy Councillor, senator, and Chief Chamberlain. Biography He was born on , as the eldest son of General-Admiral Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn from his marriage to Tatiana, the daughter of the Moscow governor Kirill Alekseyevich Naryshkin. In 1742, he began serving at the Russian Embassy in Holland. In 1749, he was on a brief unofficial mission to Paris, as part of the Austrian Embassy; in 1755-1761, he was an envoy to London and became involved in the Seven Years' War. He contributed to the accession to the throne of Catherine II of Russia. During the June coup of 1762, Golitsyn was sent to Peter III of Russia who wrote to Catherine a letter in which the emperor "asked for a pardon" and permission to retire in a foreign country, but died within a few days in Ropsha on his estate Ropshinsky under unclear circumstances. Emperor Paul I of Russia was convinced that his father was forcibly deprived of life, but he apparently could not find any evidence of this. Grigory Teplov is named as one of the murderers.