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Natal'ia Ippolitovna AlekseevaНаталья Ипполитовна АлексееваNiece of the composer. Born Natal'ia Ippolitovna TCHAIKOVSKAIA (Чайковская) in 1876, the only child of Ippolit Il'ich TCHAIKOVSKY and his wife Sofiia Petrovna (b. NIKONOVA). She married Nikolai Ivanovich ALEKSEEV (1868-1919), a guards officer and (from 1916) major-general. They had three daughters:
After serving in the First World War, where he was promoted to major-general in 1916, Natal'ia's husband Nikolai was demobilised in 1918 and returned to live with his family in Moscow. He was taken captive and executed on 13 September 1919, and is reputedly buried in a common grave at the Kalitnikovskii Cemetery in Moscow. Natal'ia Alekseeva died in 1970. |