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Elizaveta Shobert

Maternal aunt of the composer (b. 1823), born Elizaveta Andreevna Assier (Елизавета Андреевна Ассиер, Yelizaveta Andreyevna Assier); known after her marriage as Elizaveta Andreevna Shobert (Елизавета Андреевна Шоберт, Elizaveta Andreevna Šobert, Yelizaveta Andreyevna Shobert).

Elizaveta was the elder child of Tchaikovsky's grandfather Andrei Assier (1778–ca.1835) by his second wife Amalia Gogel', and sister of the composer's mother, Aleksandra (1812–1854) . She married Vasilii Shobert (d. 1849), and the couple had three children—Amaliia (1841–1912); Wilhelmina (Vil'gel'mina); and Ekaterina (d. 1866).

The Tchaikovsky family lived with the Shobert family in Saint Petersburg until the 1860s.

Correspondence with Elizaveta Shobert:

• 2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Elizaveta Shobert have survived, dating from 1848 and 1870.