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Tchaikovsky |
Elizaveta ShobertElizaveta Andreevna Shobert (Елизавета Андреевна Шоберт) was the composer's maternal aunt, born Elizaveta Andreevna Assier (Елизавета Андреевна Ассиер) in 1823, the elder child of Andrei Assier and his second wife Amalia Gogel'. She married Vasilii Shobert, and had three children: Amaliia (1841-1912); Wilhelmina (Vil'gel'mina); and Ekaterina (d. 1866). The Tchaikovsky family lived with the Shobert family in Saint Petersburg until the 1860s. |