born 1643, Russia
died May 2, 1714, Kholmogory, Russia
Russian statesman and chief adviser to Sophia Alekseyevna.
After commanding in the Ukraine, he served in the court of Fyodor III and reorganized the Russian army. When Sophia became regent in 1682, she appointed her lover Golitsyn head of the foreign office. He negotiated an alliance with Poland (1686) against the Ottoman Turks but failed in his two campaigns against the Turks (1687, 1689). He also concluded the Treaty of Peter I on the throne.