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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 of the Russian Empire railways.
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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 of the Russian Empire railways.
Engineer and army officer (b. 22 June/4 July 1821 at Slampe; d. 26 January/7 February 1876 in Moscow), born Karl Fyodorovich fon Mekk (Карл Фёдорович фон Мекк), also known as Otto Georg Karl von Meck.
Jul 8, 2019 · In 1876, the Russian engineer and railway tycoon Karl von Meck died suddenly, leaving his entire financial wealth to his 45-year-old wife Nadezhda, mother of their 11 surviving children.
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Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck (Russian: Надежда Филаретовна фон Мекк; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1831 – 13 January 1894) was a Russian businesswoman who became an influential patron of the arts, especially music.
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Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, or just Madame von Meck, was the widow of the affluent railway tycoon Karl Otto Georg von Meck. By the time she first entered Tchaikovsky’s life in 1876, she was already a formidable upper-class matron with an impressive list of accomplishments and cultivated tastes. Married at the age of sixteen, she went on to assis...
Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck’s friendship started with an appreciative fan letter from the recently widowed grande dame, sent on December 18, 1876. She had heard some of Tchaikovsky’s music at concerts—she particularly exalted The Tempest—and what ensued can only be described as the outpourings of a smitten soul. She was also grieving her husban...
Madame von Meck and Tchaikovsky were, in other words, pen pals. They strictly conducted what is known as “an epistolary friendship.” At the time, it was not a new practice, nor would it be the last of its kind. The aforementioned Catherine the Great and the French writer Voltaire never met in person but carried on a long intellectual conversation t...
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 of the Russian Empire railways.
At the age of 17 she married Karl von Meck, who in 1860 exchanged a modest job as a civil servant for that of an independent entrepreneur and made a fortune by building railway lines – not least thanks to the energy of his enterprising wife.
