# Prozorovsky

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The **House of Prozorovsky** (Russian: Прозоровскиe) were a [Russian noble family](/source/Russian_nobility) descending from [medieval](/source/Medieval) rulers of [Yaroslavl](/source/Yaroslavl) and [Mologa](/source/Mologa) and eventually the [Rostislavichi of Smolensk](/source/Rostislavichi_of_Smolensk). Their name is derived from the village of Prozorovo near [Mologa](/source/Mologa), which used to be their only [votchina](/source/Votchina) in the 15th century.[1]

## History

During the [Muscovite](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow) period of Russian history, the most eminent member of the family was Prince **Ivan Semyonovich Prozorovsky**, a [boyar](/source/Boyar)'s son and boyar himself, who happened to govern [Astrakhan](/source/Astrakhan) at the time of [Stenka Razin](/source/Stenka_Razin)'s uprising. When the rebels took the city, they had him defenestrated from a [kremlin](/source/Kremlin) tower. His little son was hung upside down on the city wall (1670). Ivan's inglorious death only added to the family standing, and six of his nephews became boyars during the early reign of [Peter the Great](/source/Peter_I_of_Russia).

Prince **Ivan Andreyevich Prozorovsky**, an [Elizabethan](/source/Elizabeth_of_Russia) general-in-chief, helped launch the military career of his son-in-law, [Alexander Suvorov](/source/Alexander_Suvorov). The latter's life with Princess Daria Prozorovskaya was never peaceful. They separated early, and the [Generalissimo](/source/Generalissimo) never recognized her son [Arkady Suvorov](/source/Arkady_Suvorov) as his own.

Prince **[Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky](/source/Alexander_Prozorovsky)** (1732-1809) was the only [Field Marshal](/source/Field_Marshal) from the family. He gained distinction in the [Seven Years' War](/source/Seven_Years'_War) and the [conquest of Crimea](/source/Russo-Turkish_War,_1768-1774). In 1790 he returned to the active service as the Governor General of [Moscow](/source/Moscow). When the Russian army [resumed its hostilities against Turkey](/source/Russo-Turkish_War,_1806-1812) in 1808, Prozorovsky became its Commander-in-Chief.

In 1870, the Prozorovsky family became extinct in a male line. 16 years earlier, [Emperor Nicholas I](/source/Emperor_Nicholas_I) had authorized Prince Alexander Fyodorovich [Galitzine](/source/House_of_Golitsyn) (1810–98) to take the name and arms of his maternal grandfather, Field-Marshal Alexander Prozorovsky. Galitzine's line became extinct in 1914, with the death of his only son, Prince Alexander Galitzine-Prozorovsky (1853-1914).

## References

1. Mandich, Donald R. & Placek, Joseph Anthony (1992). [*Russian Heraldry and Nobility*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1DsaAAAAYAAJ&q=Prozorovsky+family). Ryton Publications. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-9633063-9-5.

## External links

- [Prozorovskys Genealogy](http://www.genealogia.ru/users/rurik/Rospisi/Prozor.htm)

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