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Natal'ia AlekseevaNatal'ia Ippolitovna Alekseeva (Наталья Ипполитовна Алексеева) was the composer's niece, born Natal'ia Tchaikovskaia (Чайковская) in 1876. She was the only child of the composer's brother Ippolit Tchaikovsky and his wife Sofiia (b. Nikonova). Natali'a married Nikolai Ivanovich Alekseev (1868-1919), a guards officer and (from 1916) major-general, and they had three daughters -- Mariana, Irina and Kseniia (Oksana). After serving in the First World War, where he was promoted to major-general in 1916, Natal'ia's husband Nikolai was demobilised in 1918 and returned to live with his family in Moscow. He was taken captive and executed on 13 September 1919, and is reputedly buried in a common grave at the Kalitnikovskii Cemetery in Moscow. Natal'ia Alekseeva died in 1970. |