Prince Grigory Sergeyevich Golitsyn §

Russian Imperial general and administrator. As Caucasus Governor-General (1897–1904), he is most associated with the hardline Russification policies that broke the longstanding modus vivendi between the autocracy and the Armenian community. The June 1903 Tsarist decree confiscating Armenian Apostolic Church properties (the church-property seizure) was the signature act of his administration, and triggered ARF retaliation: Golitsyn was severely wounded in a 1903 assassination attempt in Tiflis attributed to ARF militants. Recalled to St Petersburg in 1904; the Caucasus Viceroyalty was reactivated in May 1905 under Vorontsov-Dashkov as a partial reversal of the Golitsyn-era confrontational line. The structural backdrop of the 1905 Armenian-Tatar violence cannot be read without his policies as the precipitating institutional condition.