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Ivan Miliukov

Father-in-law of the composer (b. 24 February/8 March 1811; d. 2/14 April 1871), born Ivan Andreevich Miliukov (Иван Андреевич Милюков, Ivan Andreevič Miljukov, Ivan Andreyevich Milyukov).

Ivan was the son of Andrei Miliukov (1777–1831) and his wife Aksin'ia Ivanovna (b. Golosova). On 25 January/6 February 1839 he married Ol'ga Iaminskaia (1821–1881), and they had ten children: Aleksandr (1840–1885); Elizaveta (1842–1912); Nikolai (1844–1846); Mikhail (1845–1869); Antonina (1848–1917), wife of the composer; Ol'ga (b. 1851); Mariia (b. 1854); Aglaida, also known as Adel' (b. 1855); Ivan (b. 1857); and Anna (b. 1859).

Tchaikovsky never met his father-in-law, who died six years before his engagement to Antonina.