1 The Tchaikovsky family (1848). Left to right at back: Pyotr (composer), Alexandra (his mother), Zinaida (half-sister), Nikolay (brother), Ilya (father) with Ippolit (brother). Foreground: Alexandra (sister).
David Brown is a world authority on both Russian 19th-century music and Tudor polyphony and was Professor of Music at Southampton University, from where he retired as Professor of Musicology in 1989. His books include major works on Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, and the English madrigalist, Thomas Weelkes. He has broadcast frequently.
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1 The Tchaikovsky family (1848). Left to right at back: Pyotr (composer), Alexandra (his mother), Zinaida (half-sister), Nikolay (brother), Ilya (father) with Ippolit (brother). Foreground: Alexandra (sister).
2 Anton Rubinstein
3 Tchaikovsky (1863)
4 Herman Laroche
5 Nikolay Rubinstein
6 Konstantin Albrecht
7 Tchaikovsky (1869)
8 Mily Balakirev
9 Modest Musorgsky
10 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
11 Alexander Borodin
12 Pytor Jurgenson
13 Hans von Bülow
14 Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
15 Nadezhda von Meck
16 Tchaikovsky and his wife, Antonina (1877)
17 Adolf Brodsky
18 Tchaikovsky and Anatoly Brandukov
19 The Tchaikovsky brothers (1890). Left to right: Anatoly, Nikolay, Ippolit, Pyotr, Modest
20 Sergey Taneyev
21 Tchaikovsky: portrait by Nikolai
Kuznetsov
22 Tchaikovsky with Vladimir (“Bob”) Davïdov
23 Tchaikovsky in his Cambridge doctoral robes
24 Tchaikovsky and friends (1890). Left to right: Nikolay Kashkin, Tchaikovsky, Medea Figner and Nikolay Figner (singers)