Golitsin biography

Golitsyn Lev Sergeyevich Prince, founder of Russian winemaking in the Crimea, industrial production of high -quality champagne wines in Russia. I studied the experience of preparing grape wines in France. I bought a new light in the Crimea in the estate, cultivated to grapes, in —x gg. He created the winery of Abrau-Durso. In gg. In the city of biography, he was born on August 12 on August 24 in Poland, in the family castle of Radziwlov, of which his mother was Countess Ezerskaya.

Mother was a Catholic, three of her daughters were brought up in Catholicism, and three sons in Orthodoxy. The home education of Lev Golitsyn gave him free possession of Polish and French, not bad - German, and then he studied in Belgium, probably in a private boarding house. Documents on the results of this study were not preserved. Golitsyn graduated from the Sorbonne College of Paris University with a degree of bachelor's law.

In the fall of the year, he enters the Moscow University for his own funds, passing the exams in the III gymnasium. Estimates reflect more likely a lack of character than the level of knowledge: only mathematics is excellent, but Latin, French, German, history and geography are satisfactory, but Russian and physics are good. His comrade in study by N. Yurkevich ...

tried two times ... to return him to the creature of the ticket, but Golitsyna already brought him ... Finally, Yurkevich jumped up, stood on the table and, pale from excitement, announced to Golitsyn that he was stopping the exam and puts him unit, as he knew nothing and carries some confusion. Yurkovich was a very miniature little man ... and Golitsyn is large, broad -shouldered, with bought features, a large beard and with a long hair, and his voice was thunderous.

Yurkevich was confused, flinching and quickly disappeared from the audience. He was the best student of the professor of Roman law N. Krylov and during his studies published several books with his lectures at his own expense. And on August 6, he has an illegitimate daughter Sophia. This story is not willingly illuminated by the prince’s biographers, but it was she who put the cross on his preparation for the professor’s rank in Moscow State University and led him to the New World and winemaking.

Madera is a wine born by chance. The Portuguese sent the barrels of wine from the island of Madeira to India. A long journey under the burning equatorial sun was caused by an unusual clouding and “disgrace” of wine, which because of this could not be sold. Returning back after the "sun cruise", the wine acquired a new character and began to play with a golden tint.

In the Russian wine vocabulary, the word “Madera” first appeared in the year in Crimea. Since then, Madera Massandra has been produced. Golitsyn was a great opponent of transferring such names to the practice of Russian winemaking, but nothing better for the wines of this type was invented by the usual place of his serious scientific classes already with the city of local society ended with a stormy novel with the wife of the district nobility of the Nadezhda Zasetskoy daughter of the city governor of Keri Zakhary Kherheulidzev.

For some time the scandal did not go beyond, although Nadezhda accompanied Golitsyn in years during his internship at the universities of Leipzig and Gettingen Germany. The story leaked to the newspapers, so that Comrade Golitsyna S. Muromtsev subsequently professor of Moscow State University, the leader of the Cadet party and the chairman of the 1st State Duma even wrote and published a whole book in Leipzig about the reasons for the hostility between Zasetsky and Golitsyn, managing to completely hide the truth.

During this period, Golitsyn already replaces Zasetsky as the leader of the nobility. Although Golitsyn successfully defended the master's dissertation, the professor’s career is no longer available. The daughter of Sophia was brought up by Aunts of the Principles in the Vladimir province, and the hope born in the year was from her mother in Warsaw. Half of the estate belonged to the Nadezhda Zasetskaya, and the second to her brother.

In the year, L. Golitsyn bought the second half and took up winemaking. However, the lesson for something one never suited him. In the year, he is elected a corresponding member of the Imperial Moscow Archaeological Society for the opening and description of the Stone Age parking in the Oka River basin. In different years, he is elected honorary justice of the peace and vowel of the Duma and meetings in Murom, Vladimir, Moscow, Feodosia.

It is very difficult to briefly write about Golitsyn's life. The impression is that several people at once in different parts of the globe passionately and recklessly lead scientific research, political disputes, fall into the pages of the yellow press and secular chronicles, buy antique treasures and rare wines, study production and trade and intervene in state regulation of industry.

In the year, the prince marries the Countess of Maria Orlova-Denisova and lets her condition to expand the New World. It is known that this good woman since childhood had poor health and grew up. She died in the year, and her Golitsyn ordered the sculpture of the angel on the grave of her, whose hand lies on the mane of Leo. Delhi Arslan is a crazy lion, the so -called surrounding Tatars called him, and the St.

Petersburg cabmen simply wild master.Three states, his, his roommate and his wife, he spent to a drop of Russian winemaking. Do not say that the creation. Many professionals, primarily the specific department, was engaged in the creation of winemaking. It cannot be said that his relationship with the professionals was smooth, leaving the service, he did everything in his own way in the New World.

In the 10th years, the laying of grandiose multi-tiered cellars begins, many of which are simply broken into the monolithic rock of the Koba-Kaya and Guel-Oba mountains. Moreover, their complex branching pursues clear goals - best to comply with the endurance of red and white dining wines, wines of strong, dessert and champagne. By the year, their length was 3 versts. The local legend says that the adit with the most valuable wines has not yet been found!

These picturesque mountains themselves with their pile of rocks and unique vegetation are now a reserve of New Light, where relict groves of the tree juniper and pike pine are stored on the orders of Golitsyn are connected by a walking path. Caringly wriggling and opening the views of beauty, it passes over three bays: blue, green and blue. He himself discovered and best equipped two wonderful grottoes: one at the base of Koba-Kaya as a winery and a concert venue-it is called Golitsyn’s grotto, and the other through, at the base of Cape Kapchik, as if a giant stone snake running into the sea.

In this fabulous stone hall, a banquet was held in honor of the flying of his work in winemaking. Gallery for the production of high -quality wines, according to the traditional champagne method, adjacent to the sea and all its community provided and ensures a stable temperature from 8 to as a result of painstaking work 5 grapes were selected, which could become the best basis for such wines: the Reds - Pino Fran and Murvedr - Cartopic, Aligota and Rining.

It is these varieties that are still used by Crimean winemakers to make white sparkling wines. However, in the city of financial problems, they overcome him, and in the year he decides to save his brainchild by transferring his most valuable part to the possession of Emperor Nicholas II. Indeed, not only scientific experiments, in fact that they do not provide profit, especially fast, Golitsyn brought his estate to bankruptcy.

He distributed or sold his faults for nothing, and spent a lot of money on the purchase of rare wines from all over the globe, as well as works of art and rare models of technology associated with winemaking. For example, in a year in Paris, he buys a bahus statuette for 40 thousand francs. Hundreds of rubles went to many wines in his collection. A bright building in the style of a medieval castle, crowned with four towers, was built by L.

Golitsyn for employees of the Winzavod. He and his family lived in a separate house, the house was preserved, and one of the buildings near the “castle” was occupied by the Golitsyn Museum, now the museum of the history of the champagne wines plant, unfortunately, nothing has been preserved from the unique collection of Golitsyn values, and most of his collection of wines is stored in Massandra.

But the museum gives an idea of ​​the personality of the prince and the main thing of his life - the production of champagne. The whole splendor of the court and the burden of diplomatic techniques carried the specific department, engaged in the most profitable and progressive sectors of agriculture and production. Empresses who came from Denmark and Germany themselves controlled exemplary dairy farms, but winemaking from the time of Charles the Great was considered the most worthy business for the monarchs.

Emperor Golitsyn accepted the proposal only in the year. How could he reinforce his authority of an aristocrat equal and close in blood to the ruling dynasties of several European countries? The estates were continuously expanding, which improved the experimental base: Kutlak s. Veselny, Sudak district, Sudak Valley, Gurzuf, the surroundings of Feodosia.

The possessions of his friend Prince Gorchakov in Archaders and the husband of his eldest daughter, Prince Peter Trubetskoy, who became the largest supplier of materials for canteens and champagne wines of the Cossack estate in the Kherson province and Dolmatovo in the Dnieper district, should still be attributed to this. According to the nuances of the taste of wines, he clearly guessed the characteristics of soils and the characteristic features of the year - rainy or sunny.

And he knew how to clearly and evidence describes it! The Russian language of his lectures and articles is impeccable. The results of many years of experiments were set out in a detailed report to the specific department. What was then the most monarre winemaking? Vorontsov, as well as the wine trade company S. Vorontsov with representative offices in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkov, Odessa, Simferopol and other cities.

We have already written about the varietal confusion of the noble vineyards of Crimea. The first thing Golitsyn and the specialists of the doctors managed to establish the real names of the varieties and choose their best combination for each site.

This immediately raised yield and improved varietal quality of wines; The areas of the vineyards were continuously expanding. In the year, the famous hydrogeologist Golovkinsky selects a place for the main basement.The project was developed by architect V. In the year construction under the leadership of engineer A. Didrich was completed. Given that these were the first tunnel cellars similar to only the best farms in France, Golitsyn’s personal participation can be recognized as decisive.

Only he could convince the emperor to spend 1 million. The result: 7 tunnels diverging radii, with a total length of 2 versts, with the capacity of all barrels of up to 80 thousand. This year, the basements in Sudak were completed, where vineyards were also acquired from Largier heirs. The French winemaker begins there experiments on the production of champagne, which then became the basis for industrial production in Abrau Durso in the Caucasus.

During this period, Golitsyn leaves a new light in the care of N.