Mystic at the throne. Biography of Prince A.N. Golitsyna. Kondakov Yu.E.

A supplemented and expanded reprint of the monograph of the professor of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen is dedicated to the 250th birthday of Alexander Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1773-1844). This major statesman simultaneously headed the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and Popular Education, the Main Department of Posts, the Pridary Department, often replaced the post of Minister of the Interior and the position of chairman of the State Council, was the chairman and trustee of a number of imperial societies. The prince served under Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I, Nicholas I. He was a friend of Alexander I and participated in the upbringing of Alexander II. Golitsyn is known for his original religious views, embodied in his politics in the spiritual and religious sphere. Their mutual influence with Alexander I led to the fact that for a decade in Russia unprecedented religious liberalism reigned. Masonic lodges, religious societies and sects actively acted. The preachers in Europe came to the country, Golitsyn supplied the emperor of the “prophets”. Although in the 20s the liberal religious policy was folded, the personal circle of the prince existed for many years.