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Liutsella Ratko

Liutsella Nikolaevna Ratko (Люцелла Николаевна Ратко), the composer's grand niece, 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 Корноухова).

She was married for the first time in 1917 to Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kornoukhov (1889–1967), a soloist at the Moscow Bol'shoi Theatre, and later professor at the Beirut Conservatory. They had one daughter — Tat'iana (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.