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Lev Vasil'evich DavydovЛев Васильевич ДавыдовBrother-in-law of the composer. Born in 1837, the sixth son of the sixth son of Vasilii L'vovich DAVYDOV (1792-1855) and his wife Aleksandra Ivanovna (b. POTAPOVA; 1802-95). Lev's father was a participant in the unsuccessful "Decembrist uprising" of 1825 which unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Tsar Nicholas I. Lev managed the family's extensive estates at Brailova and Kamenka (Kiev region). On 6/18 November 1860 he married for the first time to Aleksandra Il'ichina TCHAIKOVSKAIA (1841-91), and they had seven children:
In 1892, the year after Aleksandra's death, Lev married a cousin of his late wife -- Ekaterina Nikolaevna OL'KHOVSKAIA (1859-1930), and this union opened a rift with some family members (but not the composer). Lev had a son by his second marriage:
Lev Davydov died in 1896, aged 69. |