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1813
13 June 1854Julian
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In light of so ardent an attachment to his mother, whom, in his own words, he "loved with a kind of morbidly passionate love," her sudden death of cholera on 13 June 1854 could only strike him as an unspeakable tragedy and shock. (English)
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In light of so ardent an attachment to his mother, whom, in his own words, he "loved with a kind of morbidly passionate love," her sudden death of cholera on 13 June 1854 could only strike him as an unspeakable tragedy and shock. (English)
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Though colored by rhetorical conventions of the period, the over-flow of amorous language in [Ilya's] letters to his second wife, Aleksandra,the composer's mother, was exceptional and often bordered on the hysterical. "What is the meaning of your tears?" Ilya, then thirty-eight,wrote in one letter to his twenty-year-old bride before their marriage in 1833. (English)
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Identifiers
Александра Андреевна Alexandra d'Assier aka Ассиер (est. 30 Jul 1812 - aft. 13 Jun 1854)
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