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    Nikolai Karlovich von Meck (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович фон Мекк; 28 April 1863 – 24 May 1929) was a Russian Empire engineer and entrepreneur involved...
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  • von Meck Nikolai von Meck (1863-1929), son of Nadezhda and Karl Otto Georg von Meck Meck (disambiguation) This page lists people with the surname Von...
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    support to several other musicians, including Nikolai Rubinstein and Claude Debussy. Nadezhda von Meck was born Nadezhda Filaretovna Frolovskaya, in a...
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    Karl Otto Georg von Meck (Russian: Карл Фёдорович фон Мекк, 22 June 1821 – 26 January 1876) was a Baltic German businessman who was one of the founders...
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    local OGPU arrested a group of engineers, including Peter Palchinsky, Nikolai von Meck and A. F. Velichko, in the North Caucasus town of Shakhty, accusing...
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    In 1891 Nikolai von Meck, the son of Karl Otto Georg von Meck was appointed with the patronage of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Nikolai's father...
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    in Ukraine (Holodomor), and the mortality rates in the Gulag. 1928: Nikolai von Meck, accused of wrecking on the railroad transport. He "confessed" in providing...
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    Brodsky (1920) Shalyapin or Portrait of Chaliapin (1922) Portrait of Nikolai von Meck Self-portrait Self-portrait Portrait of young woman Kapitsa and Semyonov...
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  • educator (b. 1870) 1923 – Rolf Skår, Norwegian engineer (b. 1941) 1929 – Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863) 1939 – Fanny Searls, American biologist...
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  • politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933) 1863 – Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (d. 1929) 1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist...
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  • Tchaikovsky Antonina Shuranova as Nadezhda von Meck Kirill Lavrov as Władysław Pachulski Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nikolai Rubinstein Yevgeny Leonov as Alyosha...
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  • became a machinist. His father Nikolai Mikhailovich Gribov was a driver who escorted Moscow elite such as Nikolai von Meck; after his wife's death he married...
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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (category Pupils of Nikolai Zaremba)
    actions, which soured his relations with both Tchaikovsky and von Meck, included imploring von Meck in person to end Tchaikovsky's subsidy for the composer's...
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    lived in Moscow with her sister Anna, who had married Nadezhda von Meck's son Nikolai. It seemed to those around her that she had returned to normal life:...
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    for the occult pushed him to. Vladimir von Meck, one of the organizers of the exhibition, and his uncle Nikolai acquired many canvases of Vrubel's. This...
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  • personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr...
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  • Soviet general (d. 1953) Alexander III, monarch (born 1845) Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Peter Tchaikovsky (b. 1831) Media related to 1894 in Russia...
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  • Works in Russia. In an 1877 letter to his friend and patroness Nadezhda von Meck, he wrote: For me [the church] still possesses much poetical charm. I very...
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    including personal physicians and various musicians. Nikolai Rubinstein recommended Kotek. Von Meck had already heard some of Tchaikovsky’s music, and liked...
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    musician by Nadezhda von Meck, the patroness of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He was a secretary to the von Meck family and married von Meck's daughter Yuliya...
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    Tchaikovsky himself wrote in July 1877 in a letter to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck about his own spiritual state and the possibility of committing suicide:...
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    Rubinstein's reaction, writing again to von Meck, "I tremble at the thought of the criticisms I may again hear from Nikolai Grigoryevich, to whom this concerto...
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    von Meck, son of the businessman, Karl von Meck. He showed some of Ivan's drawings to one of his guests, Nikolai Rubinstein, who joined with Von Meck...
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    adultery, which Antonina refused to admit. A 10,000 ruble incentive from von Meck to accept the divorce was also rejected. This sum would have been payable...
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    quartet and the symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, that they "were filled with a host of clever things but ... [were] imbued...
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  • combination of piano, violin, and cello. In 1880, his benefactress Nadezhda von Meck, had asked for such a piece, but he refused, saying in his letter to her...
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    works. Even so, he remained fond of it, writing to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck in 1883 that "although it is in many ways very immature, yet fundamentally...
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  • amateur composer who was the secretary to and later son-in-law of Nadezhda von Meck, the patroness for 13 years of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pachulski was...
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    composition of the symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, that he wanted "very much" to dedicate it to her, and that he would write...
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    performed on October 25, 1875, in Boston by Hans von Bülow after Tchaikovsky's desired pianist, Nikolai Rubinstein, criticised the piece. Rubinstein later...
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