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Ekaterina Shiroshkina

Ekaterina Petrovna Shiroshkina (Екатерина Петровна Широшкина) was the composer's paternal aunt, born Ekaterina Tchaikovskaia (Чайковская) in 1783, the third child of Petr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky and Anastasiia Posokhova.

She married Vasilii Parfënovich Shiroshkina (b. 1776), by whom she had two children: Nikolai (b. 1810); and Petr (b. 1810).