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Tchaikovsky |
Petr Fedorovich TchaikovskyPetr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky (Петр Федорович Чайковский) was the composer's paternal grandather, born Petr Chaika (Чайка) in 1745 in Nikolaevka (near Poltava), Ukraine, the second child of Fedor Chaika and his wife Anna. He was the first family member to adopt the name Tchaikovsky. Petr studied in a seminary in Kiev, but he later received medical training in Saint Petersburg. From 1770 to 1777 he served as a physician's assistant in the army, later becoming a medical officer in Kungur (Perm' Region), before transferring to Viatka in 1782. Three years later he was included (as a member of the landless gentry) in the register of nobility instituted by Catherine the Great. He resigned from his medical dervice, and became a member of Viatka City Council in 1789, governor of Slobodskoi from 1795, later governor of Glazov. Recipient of the Order of St. Vladimir (4th class). In 1776 he married Anastasiia Stepanovna Posokhova (b.1751), and they had eleven children: Vasilii (b. 1777); Evdokiia (b. 1780); Ekaterina (b. 1783); Ivan (b. 1785); Aleksandra (b. 1786); Petr (1789–1871); Anna (b. 1790, d. in early childhood); Mariia (b. 1792; d. in early childhood); Vladimir (1793–1850); Il'ia (1795–1880), father of the composer; and Olimpiada (1801–1874) Petr Tchaikovsky died in 1818. |