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Lev DavydovLev Vasil'evich Davydov (Лев Васильевич Давыдов) was the composer's brother-in-law, born in 1837, the sixth son of Vasilii L'vovich Davydov (1792–1855) and his wife Aleksandra Ivanovna (b. Potapova, 1802–1895). His father was a participant in the unsuccessful "Decembrist uprising" of 1825 which unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Tsar Nicholas I. Lev managed the family's extensive estates at Brailov and Kamenka (near Kiev). On 6/18 November 1860 he married for the first time to the composer's sister Aleksandra (1842–1891), and they had seven children: Tat'iana (1861–1887); Vera (1863–1888); Anna (1864–1942); Natal'ia (1868–1956); Dmitrii (1870–1929); Vladimir (1871–1906); and Iurii (1876–1965). In 1892, the year after Aleksandra's death, Lev married a cousin of his late wife — Ekaterina Nikolaevna Ol'khovskaia (1859–1930) — and this union opened a rift with some family members (but not the composer). Lev had a son by his second marriage, also called Lev (b. 1892). Lev Davydov died in 1896, aged 69. |