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Liutsella RatkoLiutsella Nikolaevna Ratko (Люцелла Николаевна Ратко) was born Liutsella Nikolaevna von Meck (Люцелла Николаевна фон Мекк) on 8/20 August 1896, the youngest child of Nadezhda von Meck's son Nikolai and Tchaikovsky's niece Anna. During her first marriage she was also known as Liutsella Nikolaevna Kornoukhova (Люцелла Николаевна Корноеухова). She was married for the first time in 1917 to Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kornoukhov (1889-1967), a soloist at the Bol'shoi Theatre, and later professor at the Beirut Conservatory. They had one daughter -- Tat'ana (b. 1918). Her second husband was Aleksei Vasil'evich Ratko (1900-1975), by whom she had a son -- Vasilii (1928-2001). Liutsella Ratko died in 1933. |