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Aleksandra Valerianovna Panaeva-KartsovaАлександра Валериановна Панаева-КарцоваRussian singer and friend of the composer (to whom she was known as "Paney"). Born Aleksandra Valerianovna PANAEVA (Панаева) in 1853, the daughter of the engineer and writer Valerian Aleksandrovich PANAEV (1824-1899) and his wife Sofia Mikhailovna (b. MEL'GUNOVA). Aleksandra Panaeva was the first intepreter of the role of Tat'iana in a private performance of extracts from Tchaikovsky's opera Evgenii Onegin at the Moscow Conservatory in 1879, and the following year the composer dedicated his set of Seven Romances, Op. 47 to her. On 7/19 January 1885 she married Tchaikovsky's cousin, Georgii Pavlovich KARTSOV (1862-1931), and took the surname PANAEVA-KARTSOVA. Aleksandra Panaeva-Kartsova died during the siege of Leningrad in 1942, aged 88.. |