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Anatolii Tchaikovsky (1850–1915)

Anatolii Tchaikovsky

Jurist, administrator, and younger brother of the composer (b. 1/13 May 1850 in Alapaevsk; d. 20 January/2 February 1915 in Saint Petersburg), born Anatolii Il'ich Tchaikovsky (Анатолий Ильич Чайковский, Anatolij Il'ič Čajkovskij, Anatoly Il'yich Tchaikovsky).

Anatolii was the fifth son of Il'ia Tchaikovsky (1795–1880) and his wife Aleksandra (b. Assier, 1812–1854), and twin brother of Modest Tchaikovsky (1850–1916). After graduating from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg in 1869, he pursued a successful legal career in Kiev, Minsk, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Tiflis.

He married Praskov'ia Konshina (1864–1956) in 1882, and their only child—Tat'iana (1883–1970)—was born the following year.

In 1885 Anatolii Tchaikovsky  was appointed state prosecutor in Tiflis, and was quickly promoted to deputy governor. In the 1890s he also served in Reval and Nizhny Novgorod, before returning to Saint Petersburg in 1897. He died there on 20 January/2 February 1915, and is buried at the Nikol'skoe Cemetery at the city's Aleksandr Nevskii Monastery.

Tchaikovsky's works dedicated to Anatolii Tchaikovsky:

• Six Romances, Op. 38 (1878).

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Anatolii Tchaikovsky:

• 562 letters from Tchaikovsky to his brother Anatolii Tchaikovsky have survived, dating from 1866 to 1893.