The picture shows Lydia and Nadezhda, the elder sisters of Tikhon Khrennikov. This photograph was given to the museum by their niece Veronica. She was fond of family history, communicated with relatives and collected a large photo archive of the family.
The Khrennikov family had ten children — six sons and four daughters. Lydia was born in 1898 and Nadezhda in 1900. They received upbringing, traditional for the petty bourgeois provincial environment, where the most important thing was the ability to ‘run a house’: to cook, clean, wash, take care of children. The mother Varvara Vasilievna taught the children to sew and weave lace. In the photo, the girls are wearing dresses of different cut, but from the same fabric — they were also sewn by the sisters' mother.
The sisters were very friendly, they spent a lot of time together — they studied, took care of the younger ones and helped each other in everything. Lydia received a pedagogical education. Her first marriage was unsuccessful and soon fell apart. When she got married a second time, she and her husband left Yelets for Moscow. She did not have children, and she died in 1957.
Nadezhda also moved to Moscow and worked as a librarian. There she married Alexander Zeitlin, a hygienist, professor at the Institute of School Hygiene. She did not have children, like Lydia. Once she came to visit her parents in Yelets with Sophia Zeitlin, her friend and future relative, a student at the Gnessin Musical College. She drew attention to the musical abilities of Tikhon Khrennikov. When Sophia returned to the capital, she told her teacher, the famous tutor Mikhail Gnessin, about the boy from Yelets. He invited the young musician to his place, listened to his first compositions and advised him to go to the college.
The future composer followed the advice — in 1929 he received a certificate of nine-year education and went to study in Moscow. At first he lived with his sister Nadezhda in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane. The families of the Khrennikovs and Tseitlins maintained family ties, communicated, and often visited each other, especially when they acquired summer cottages. Nadezhda lived a long life and died in Moscow in 1992.
The Khrennikov family had ten children — six sons and four daughters. Lydia was born in 1898 and Nadezhda in 1900. They received upbringing, traditional for the petty bourgeois provincial environment, where the most important thing was the ability to ‘run a house’: to cook, clean, wash, take care of children. The mother Varvara Vasilievna taught the children to sew and weave lace. In the photo, the girls are wearing dresses of different cut, but from the same fabric — they were also sewn by the sisters' mother.
The sisters were very friendly, they spent a lot of time together — they studied, took care of the younger ones and helped each other in everything. Lydia received a pedagogical education. Her first marriage was unsuccessful and soon fell apart. When she got married a second time, she and her husband left Yelets for Moscow. She did not have children, and she died in 1957.
Nadezhda also moved to Moscow and worked as a librarian. There she married Alexander Zeitlin, a hygienist, professor at the Institute of School Hygiene. She did not have children, like Lydia. Once she came to visit her parents in Yelets with Sophia Zeitlin, her friend and future relative, a student at the Gnessin Musical College. She drew attention to the musical abilities of Tikhon Khrennikov. When Sophia returned to the capital, she told her teacher, the famous tutor Mikhail Gnessin, about the boy from Yelets. He invited the young musician to his place, listened to his first compositions and advised him to go to the college.
The future composer followed the advice — in 1929 he received a certificate of nine-year education and went to study in Moscow. At first he lived with his sister Nadezhda in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane. The families of the Khrennikovs and Tseitlins maintained family ties, communicated, and often visited each other, especially when they acquired summer cottages. Nadezhda lived a long life and died in Moscow in 1992.
