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Mikhail PopovMikhail Ivanovich Popov (Михайл Иванович Попов) was the composer's maternal great-grandfather, born in 1751 at Moscow, the eldest son of Ivan Popov and his wife Tat'iana. He studied at the Kiev Academy (1763-1769) and the Aleksandr Nevskii Seminary in Saint Petersburg (1770-1774). Appointed Deacon at the Nikolaveskii Cathedral in Saint Petersburg in 1774, and at the Church of Saint Sergiev from 1790. On 1/12 June 1774 he married Anna Dmitrievna Rykovskaia (b. 1752) at the Church of St. Sergiev in Saint Petersburg, and they had five children: Varvara (b. 1776); Ekaterina (1778-1816), grandmother of the composer; Nikolai (1779-1869); Maria (b. 1783); and Sergei (1785-1851). Mikahil Popov died from a fever on 16/27 March 1792 in Saint Petersburg, and was buried at the Otkhenskii Cemetery. |