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Elizaveta Assier (1778-1816)Ekaterina Mikhailovna Assier

Екатерина Михайловна Ассиер

Maternal grandmother of the composer. Born Ekaterina Mikhailovna POPOVA (Попова) on 8/19 October 1778 in Saint Petersburg, the second child of Mikhail Ivanovich Popov and his wife Anna Dmitrievna (b. RYKOVSKAIA).

She married in 1800 to Andrei Mikhailovich ASSIER (1778-1835), and they had five children:

  1. Mikhail Andreevich Assier (1802-?) .
  2. Ekaterina Andreevna Assier (1805-1882).
  3. Nikolai Andreevich Assier (1809-?).
  4. Andrei Andreevich Assier (1811-?) .
  5. Aleksandra Andreevna Assier (1812-1854), mother of the composer.

Ekaterina Assier died on 5/17 September 1816, and was buried at Smolenskoe Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.