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Mariia KiselevaMariia Vladimirovna Kiseleva (Мария Владимировна Киселева), was born Mariia Begicheva (Бегичева), and was the daughter of the dramatist Vladimir Begichev (1838-1891). When her father remarried to Mariia Shilovskii (1830-1879), she became step-sister to the composer's friends Konstantin and Vladimir Shilovskii, and Tchaikovsky was introduced to Mariia at the family estate of Glebovo in the spring of 1876. Mariia Kiseleva died in 1921. |