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Ekaterina AlekseevaEkaterina Andreevna Alekseeva (Екатерина Андреевна Алексеева), was the composer's maternal aunt, born Ekaterina Assier (Ассиер) on 14/26 February 1805, the eldest daughter of Andrei Assier and his wife Ekaterina (b. Popova). She was an amateur singer (contralto), who influenced Tchaikovsky's early musical development, She married Major-General Aleksandr Alekseev (d. 1861), and they had a son, Ivan Alekseev, who became an army officer Ekaterina Alekseeva died on 17/29 January 1882, aged 76, and was buried at the Smolenskoe Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. |