sentences:  Demetris Gallitzin was born on December 22, 1770, at The Hague in the Netherlands.His name is a form of Galitzine, the Russian princely family in which he was born.His father, Dimitri Alexeievich Galitzine (1735-1803), Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, was an intimate friend of Voltaire and a follower of Diderot; so, too, for many years was his mother, Countess Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin (1748-1806), until a severe illness in 1786 led her back to the Roman Catholic Church, in which she had been raised.