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Antonina Ivanovna Miliukova (Russian: Антонина Ивановна Милюкова; 5 July [O.S. 23 June] 1848 – 1 March [O.S. 16 February] 1917) was the wife of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from 1877 until his death in 1893.
How much do you know about Tchaikovsky, from his ballets to his compositions? Read about one of the romantic era's greatest composers.
Tchaikovsky took a wife, Antonina Milyukova, a woman eight years his junior. It wasn't a happy marriage. Read on to discover why.
Antonina Miliukova (1848-1917) was Tchaikovsky's much-maligned wife. Learn more about her life and relationship with the famous composer.
Jun 24, 2024 · Tchaikovsky was the second of six surviving children of Ilya Tchaikovsky, a manager of the Kamsko-Votkinsk metal works, and Alexandra Assier, who died when Tchaikovsky was in his teens. Despite being gay, Tchaikovsky married Antonina Milyukova, a young music student, in 1877.
- Alexander Poznansky
Tchaikovsky's mother, Alexandra Andreyevna (née d'Assier), was the second of Ilya's three wives; his first wife died several years before Pyotr's birth. She was 18 years younger than her husband and was of French and German ethnicity through her paternal side. [16]
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Antonina 's parents, Ivan Milyukov and his wife Olga, separated in 1851, and her childhood was spent in an unfavourable emotional environment. She was brought up in a private Moscow boarding school under the supervision of her mother (1851–55), and then at her father's Klin estate (1855–58).
