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Tchaikovsky |
Anatolii TchaikovskyAnatolii Il'ich Tchaikovsky (Анатолий Ильич Чайковский) was a jurist, writer, dramatist and translator, and the younger brother of the composer, with whom he was very close, Anatolii was born on 1/13 May 1850 in Alapaevsk (Viatka region), Russia, was the fifth son of Il'ia Tchaikovsky and his wife Aleksandra (b. Assier), and twin brother of Modest Tchaikovsky. After graduating from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg in 1869, he pursued a successful legal career in Kiev, Minsk, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Tiflis (now Tblissi). Anatolii married Praskov'ia Konshina in 1882, and the couple's only child - Tati'ana (1883-1970) -- was born the following year. In 1885 Anatolii Tchaikovsky he was appointed state prosecutor in Tiflis, and was quickly promoted to vice-governor. In the 1890s he also served in Revel and Nizhnii-Novgorod, before returning to Saint Petersburg in 1897. He died there on 20 January/2 February 1915, and is buried at the Nikol'skoe Cemetery at the Aleksandr Nevskii Monastery. Tchaikovsky dedicated his set of Six Romances, Op. 38 (1878) to his brother Anatolii. |