Conversion To Roman Catholicism
Influenced by his second wife, Countess Constantine Joseph Dominic Tyurgeym (1785 - 1867), whom Prince Razumovsky married in February 1816, he adopted the Roman Catholic faith, abandoned his former Orthodox one.
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