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Galina von MeckGalina Nikolaevna von Meck (Галина Николаевна фон Мекк), the composer's grand-niece, was born on 12/24 October 1891 in Moscow; the third child of Nadezhda von Meck's son Nikolai and Tchaikovsky's niece Anna. She was a writer and translator, and the author of As I remember them (1973), concerning her early family life. She also translated the correspondence between Tchaikovsky and her grandmother into English. In 1913 she married for the first time to Noel William Perrott, by whom she had a daughter Anna (1915–1995). Her second husband was Dmitrii Orlovskii Galina von Meck died on 9 April 1985 at Hounslow, London, England, aged 93. |