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Olimpiada Antipova

Olimpiada Petrovna Antipova (Олимпиада Петровна Антипова) was the composer's paternal aunt, born Olimpiada Tchaikovskaia (Чайковская) in 1801, the youngest child of Petr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky and his wife Anastasiia (b. Posokhova).

Olimpiada married Ivan Ivanovich Antipov, a senior official in the mining industry, and they had seven children -- Petr (b. 1819) ; Ekaterina  (b. 1822); Aleksandr (1824-1887), mining engineer and geologist; Mikhail (1824-1897); Aleksei (1833-1913); Elizaveta; Appolinariia.

Olimpiada Antipova died in 1874.