Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn

Prince Dmitri Alekseyevich Golitsyn FRS (21 December 1728 – 16 March 1803) was a Russian diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist. By birth he was a member of the House of Golitsyn. He was a supporter of the recognition of the United States, and participated in the drafting of the First League of Armed Neutrality. He was the first Russian educated person that made specific proposals on the abolition of serfdom in Russia.

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