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Alina Briullova

Mother of Nikolai Konradi (b. 1849; d. 1932), born Alina Ivanovna Meyer (Алина Ивановна Мейер, Alina Ivanovna Mejer); known after her first marriage as Alina Ivanovna Konradi (Алина Ивановна Конради), and after her second marriage as Alina Ivanovna Briullova (Алина Ивановна Брюллова, Alina Ivanovna Brjullova, Alina Ivanovna Bryullova).

It was from Alina's first marriage to the agriculturist Herman Konradi (1833–1882) that she had a deaf-mute son Nikolai ("Kolia"), to whom Tchaikovsky's brother Modest became tutor in 1876. The composer and his brother often stayed at the Konradis' estate at Grankino, and knew the family well, although relations with Alina became strained after she divorced from her husband in 1881, and Modest was granted permanent guardianship of Nikolai the following year.

During the 1880s Alina married her second husband Vladimir Aleksandrovich Briullov (1846–1918), the manager of the Russian National Museum.

Although Tchaikovsky's letters reveal that in private he found Alina a very "unsympathetic" person, for Nikolai and Modest's sake he concealed his misgivings.

Tchaikovsky's works dedicated to Alina Briullova:

• Echo rustique—No. 13 of the Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72 (1893).

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Alina Briullova:

• 2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Alina Briullova have survived, dating from 1879 to 1880.