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[[File:Borovikovsky Golitsyn family.jpg|thumb|''Golitsyn family'' by [[Vladimir Borovikovsky]] (1810), [[National Museum, Warsaw|National Museum]] in Warsaw]]

On 31 August 1812 ([[New Style]]) he entered military service again? During the fir of Moscow he offered 30,000 roubles to conduct him to the Russian army.<ref>With Napoleon's Guard in Russia, The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812, p. 229</ref> [[Kutuzov]] entrusted him with leading the cavalry of the 2nd Western Army and the 1st and 2nd Cuirassier Divisions that were not assigned to any cavalry corps, at which he excelled at [[Battle of Tarutino]], [[Battle of Vyazma|Vyazma]], and [[Battle of Krasnoi|Krasny]]. In 1814 he was promoted to the rank of full [[General of the Cavalry]].

He governed [[Moscow]] as military Governor from 1820 and put much effort in rebuilding the city after the [[Fire of Moscow (1812)]]. In 1829 he founded a committee aimed at the protection of prisoners and supported [[Friedrich Joseph Haass]].

In the late 1830s Golitsyn fell seriously ill and from 1838 he received medical treatment for the [[urolithiasis]]. On 16 April 1841 Golitsyn received the title of [[Serene Highness|''Serene Prince'']] for his great merits. He died in Paris on 27 March 1844, a few months before the 25th anniversary of his service as Governor of Moscow.