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Argippina StefanovaArgippina Ivanovna Stefanova (Аргиппина Ивановна Стефанова) was the composer's maternal great-grand aunt, born Argippina Popova (Попова) in 1756, the second child of Ivan Petrov and his wife Tat'iana. In 1772 she married Ivan Stepanovich Stefanov (1743–1798), and the couple had four children: Semen (b. 1774); Tat'ana (b. 1777); Ivan (b. 1778); Elizaveta (b. 1783). Argippina Stefanova died from consumption on 1/12 June 1798, and is buried at the Okhtenskii Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. |