Lecture on P.I. Tchaikovsky Held at St. Nicholas Cathedral On November 3, 2024, after the Sunday Divine Liturgy, a lecture titled “The Tchaikovsky Family and the Composer’s Spiritual Path” was held in the parish hall of St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York. The event was organized on the initiative of the head of the Russian-American Center “Heritage,” O.S. Zatsepina. The lecture was given by Denis von Meck, a descendant of P.I. Tchaikovsky and of his longtime friend and benefactress N.F. von Meck. He is a descendant of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s niece and of N.F. von Meck’s son. The many cathedral parishioners learned with interest about the values and upbringing of children in the Tchaikovsky family and, in particular, about the extraordinary patriotism that Pyotr Ilyich carried throughout his life. Denis von Meck donated to the cathedral library seven books published by the von Meck Foundation, which tell, among other things, about the spiritual life of the Tchaikovsky family.
