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Iakov Rykovskii

Maternal great-grand uncle of the composer (b. ca.1747), born Iakov Dmitrievich Rykovskii (Яков Дмитриевич Рыковский, Jakov Dmitrievič Rykovskij, Yakov Dmitrievich Rikovsky).

Iakova was the elder child of Dmitrii Rykovskii (1721–1757) and his wife Evfimiia (b. Iosifovich, 1727–?). In 1769 he graduated from the Aleksandr Nevskii Seminary in Saint Petersburg, where he then served as Deacon.