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Dmitrii RykovskiiDmitrii Iakovlevich Rykovskii (Дмитрий Яковлевич Рыковский) was a great-great grandfather of the composer, born in 1721, the son of Iakov Danilovich Rykovskii. In 1744 he graduated from the Aleksandr Nevskii Seminary in Saint Petersburg, where he then served as Deacon, then Priest (from 1747) and later Steward of Petropavlovsk Cathedral. He married Evfimiia Kirkovna Iosifovich (b. 1727), and they had at least two children: Iakov (b. circa 1747); Anna (b. circa 1752), great-grandmother of the composer. Dmitrii Rykovskii died in March 1757 in Saint Petersburg. |