Tchaikovsky
www.tchaikovsky-research.net

Natal'ia Alekseeva

Niece of the composer (b. 1876; d. 1970), born Natal'ia Ippolitovna Tchaikovskaia (Наталья Ипполитовна Чайковская, Natal'ia Ippolitovna Čajkovskaja, Natal'ya Ippolitovna Tchaikovskaya); known after her marriage as Natal'ia Ippolitovna Alekseeva (Наталья Ипполитовна Алексеева, Natal'ya Ippolitovna Alekseyeva) .

Natal'ia was the only child of the composer's brother Ippolit Tchaikovsky and his wife Sofiia. She married Nikolai Ivanovich Alekseev (1868–1919), a guards officer who was promoted to major-general in 1916, and they had three daughters—Mariana, Irina, and Kseniia (who was also known as Oksana).

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.