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Ekaterina Shiroshkina

Paternal aunt of the composer (b. 1783), born Ekaterina Petrovna Tchaikovskaia (Екатерина Петровна Чайковская, Ekaterina Petrovna Čajkovskaja, Yekaterina Petrovna Tchaikovskaya); known after her marriage as Ekaterina Petrovna Shiroshkina (Екатерина Петровна Широшкина, Ekaterina Petrovna Široškina, Yekaterina Petrovna Shiroshkina).

Ekaterina) was the third child of the composer's grandparents Petr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky (1745–1818) and his wife Anastasiia (b. Posokhova, 1751–?). She married Vasilii Parfënovich Shiroshkina (b. 1776), by whom she had two children: Nikolai (b. 1810); and Petr (b. 1810).