Author: GOLITSYN.- GALITZYNE, Prince Nicolai Dimitriyevich.- 'Monsieur le Directeur' [recipient = Francis Magnard, Rédacteur en Chef].- ALS.-
Title: Large and extensive 22 folio pages autograph letter in French by Prince Nicolas Galtyzine, dated Saint Petersbourg, 28 Juillet [/ 9 August], 1887, to an unnamed recipient, named 'Monsieur le Directeur', but most probably Francis Magnard [succeeding H. de Villemessant as Director of the 'Figaro' from 1875] , in which Golitsyn comments in no uncertain terms on the article contributed by Jacques St. Cère, (later himself editor in Chief of the 'Figaro' and 'Vie Parisienne', whose real name was Armand Rosenthal), regarding his views on the Russian publicist and author Katkoff [Mikhail Katkov], who died August 1st 1887 and was buried in ... on the ... of ... The article appeared in 'Le Figaro', year 33, third series, nr. 218, August 6, 1887.
Description: Saint Petersbourg, autograph, 1887. ['28 Juillet (9 août']. Folio. Meas. appr. 27 x 21 cm. Appr. 25 lines of autograph text per page, many corrections, sometimes the crossing out of 5-6 lines (total number of lines appr. 550). (XXII pp.). (5 doublepage folio leaves (numbered 1 - 5) & 1 single folio leaf (numbered 6); 5 x 4 plus 1 x 2 pp. = 22 pages.). Prince Nicolai Golitsyn [1850 - 1925] was a Russian aristocrat and the last Tsarist prime minister of Imperial Russia, in office between 20 January 1917 - 12 March 1917, stepping down w. his governement at the outbreak of the February Revolution in 1917. Golitsyn succeeded Alexander Trepov with anxious feelings and even begging the Emperor [Nicolas II] to cancel his appointment, due to his lack of preparation for the post, but the Tsar insisted. A few weeks later the February Revolution began. The Council of Ministers of Russia held their last meeting on the eve of 27 February 1917, followed by their formal resignation. Golitsyn and his ministers were arrested and Golitsyn himself transported to the Peter and Paul fortress for interrogation on March 4. His release followed on March 13. He was forced to stay in Russia and earned his living repairing shoes in Moscow or Petrograd and guarding vegetable gardens in Rybinsk. In the years between 1920 - 1924 he was arrested twice on suspicion of being connected to counter revolutionaries. After his 3rd arrest on 12 February 1925 he was executed on Jyly 2, 1925 in Leningrad. At the time of writing this long letter, July / August 1887, Prince Golitsyn was 37 years of age and Governor of the administrative subdivision of Archangelsk, Kaluga and Tver (1885 - 1893], father of then 3 sons [b. 1882, 1883, 1885], 1 daughter born the preceding year (1886) 1 daughter on the way (1888). two of his 3 daughters [b. 1886, 1891], died in their infancy. The subject matter of the long letter by Prince Golitsyn is the figure of the conservative Russian journalist and longstanding editor of the the 'Moscow News' [editorship between 1863 - 1887] Mikhail Katkov, named Katkoff in the letter. Katkoff died August 1st of 1887 and within a week an article appeared in the 'Figaro', written by Jacques St. Cère in which he .... The Prince Golitsyn retaliates all guns blazing in this 22 page letter, arguing the case of / against / ...? Katkov, attacking Jacques St. Cère, not intending to take prisoners... Strekking artikel.... Jacques St. Cère [=Armand Rosenthal, 18---- - ...],

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