Golitsynsky Yu biography

Music is a composer, chormaster Prince Yu. Golitsyn was born on December 11 in St. Petersburg. His father is Prince N. Golitsyn, a colonel, the hero of the war of the year, a poet, a talented cellist, a representative of the 4th branch of the Golitsyn, leading from the Lithuanian prince Gedemin. On the maternal line, the future chormaster was associated with the most influential and richest genera of Russia - Golovkin and Dolgoruky.

Elena Alexandrovna died early, at the age of 25, from the throat consumption. The only heir to the estate of Saltyki in the village. Novocherkutino, Utman district of the Tambov province, now Dobrinsky district became her five -year -old son Yuri.

Yurka was called the prince by relatives and acquaintances from early childhood was distinguished by a restless temper. This is orphanage, trouble -free education, severity and excessive, sometimes pampering influenced the ardent nature of the boy: he developed a selfless, unbridled, terribly quick -tempered character he showed his ardent character: when the nanny announced him about the end of his mother, he gave her a slap in the face!

From his father, Yuri Nikolaevich inherited the artistic nature and outstanding musical abilities. From early childhood, he joined the music. Still studying in the Page Corps, the young prince led the chorus of Page and took music lessons. The singing lessons were given to him by the then popular choral conductor Gabriel Yakimovich Lomakin, the famous head of the choral chapel of Count Sheremetev.

Yuri Nikolaevich continued his musical education in Germany. At the end of the case of Prince. Golitsyn was sent to Kharkov, where he served as a college registrar at the provincial office. In Kharkov, he met his future wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna Bakhmetyeva, their wedding took place here. The young family settled in the family estate of Yuri Nikolayevich Saltyki of the Tambov province.

In the city of Yuri Nikolaevich, he was counted to the Ministry of the Interior and promoted to the provincial secretaries, in —m he would be elected by the county mediator of the love of land, in m - the leader of the nobility of the Usman district, and in M ​​- the acting of the Tambov provincial leader of the nobility. This incident describes in his letters Count M.

Buturlin, explaining the rapid career growth of the prince by the happy coincidence of circumstances. From the story of Buturlin, it follows that the leader of the Tambov nobility of Prince. Golitsyn arrived at the emperor to report “on the donation from the whole province for the needs of the military department of the lifting horses” precisely at the moment when some extraordinary diplomatic agents “arrived at the king, in the presence of which the deceased sovereign showered Golitsyn by gracious expressions.” According to the memoirs of Elena Yuryevna Khvoshchinskaya, most of the year the family lived in Tambov, and in the summer - in Saltyki.

Yuri Nikolaevich did not limit himself to the expenses so much that his wife made a complaint to the emperor, and they established custody of Golitsyn, determining him a very limited amount for personal expenses. The Usman court sentenced the Golitsyn estate for the accumulated debts of the prince, and only the intervention of Aunt Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina prevented this disaster.

Prince Golitsyn did not stop his music for a minute. In the year, he received a diploma of regent of the 1st category with the right to “teach church singing” and compose “new church music”. He created a choir chapel from serfs. The special sound of the votes of the singers in the Golitsyn choir was recalled by everyone who happened to hear their performances. The choir of Prince Yuri Golitsyn was incredible success not only thanks to the “magnificent selection and training of fortress singers”, with each of which he personally engaged, “but also a talented musical interpretation of the performed works, the finest sense of folklos and the romantic personality of the prince’s handsome”.

With a chapel, the prince systematically made a tour in Tambov, Voronezh, to the Lipetsk resort, in Lebedyan, Usman and other places. At the same time, Prince Golitsyn became famous and as a cruel serf, for the torture of his peasants in trial. Meanwhile, the prince's family life cracked: he madly fell in love with Yulenka Rachmaninov - the daughter of his good neighbors and friends Varvara Vasilyevna and Arkady Alexandrovich.

The latter were forced to refuse the prince from home, although they did not interrupt friendship with him. The prince signed up in the militia, he was seconded to the southern army. From the Crimean war, Yurka Golitsyn returned shell -shocked. Ekaterina Nikolaevna left her husband and, together with her daughters, left for Ogra - the Penza estate of her sister Sophia.

For correspondence with the disgraced A. Herzen Yu. Golitsyn, he was deprived of the title of chamberlain and was exiled to Michurinsk in the year in the year, from where he fled abroad with his second illegal wife Julia Mikhailovna Kolemina. From the border, the daring prince sent a message to the chief of the gendarmes to Prince V. Dolgorukov: "Due to the serviceability of your secret police, I safely reached the border." The foreign life of Prince.

Golitsyna was fulfilled success and adversity.His performances were caused by the frantic delight of the public, but he was delivered to concerts directly from the London prison, where he had pleased for his debts. Finally, a pardon came from Russia, and the prince returned home. Upon returning to the city of Yuri Nikolaevich, he lived in Yaroslavl, Moscow, St. Petersburg, conducted a wide concert activity.

With different choirs of 80 to a person, he performed in the cities of Russia, abroad. Golitsyn created the author’s methodology for working with the choir. He is the author of spiritual music, orchestral, chamber-instrumental, vocal works. Prince Golitsyn also acted as a musical critic, left the memories of “past and present. From the notes of Yu. Golitsyn »St.

Petersburg. Yu. Golitsyn died in the year, was buried in the clan tomb in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In the years in the Lipetsk region, festivals of academic choirs were held. Kotomin, past and present: from the notes of Prince. Neklyudova, literature on life and creativity, Hero, E. Buturlin M. Notes Gr. Sokolova A. Ileshin B. Russia, Goryainov Yu. Nagibin Yu.

Herzen: In 2 volumes Zatsepina T. Prince Yu. Golitsyn: Strochi to the portrait of the GG. Ryazanov, N. Vyazemi, Vetlovsky I. Vetlovsky, M. Sushkov, V. From the memoirs of Prince Yu. Golitsyn and his daughter E. Tulinov O. Pages of History: Dedicuations. Nikolaeva L. Rogacheva Yu. Golitsyn as a student of G. Rachmaninov, Alexander Mironovich Aizenstadt. Historical materials.

Glinka, Eliseev V. Herzen, N. Ogarev and their environment: album - Kat. Zhelvakova [et al. Gorodonova L. Reference materials Orthodox encyclopedia.