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Ivan TchaikovskyIvan Petrovich Tchaikovsky (Иван Петрович Чайковский) was the composer's paternal uncle, born in 1785, the fourth child of Petr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky and his wife Anastasiia (b. Posokhova). He was an army officer, awarded the Order of St George (4th class) for bravery. Ivan Tchaikovsky was killed in Paris in 1813, fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. |