Sophia Ivanovna Nekrasova, née Miller, was the first wife of Nikolay Nekrasov’s brother, Fyodor Alexeyevich.

According to the birth certificate of the Yaroslavl Lutheran Church, she was born on April 7, 1844, at 3 a.m.

The girl was baptized on July 6, 1844. The staff physician Genigold Schultz and the maiden Anneta Flagge were registered as her godparents.

According to the details in his passport of March 7, 1844, Sophia’s father Ivan Ivanovich Miller was a German of the Lutheran denomination. At that time, he was about 47 years old.

Ivan Miller was educated at the University of Dorpat and the Saint Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy. He began his service in Yaroslavl on June 23, 1822 as an obstetrician attached to the medical council.

According to his marriage certificate, he was married to Maria Adamovna Ritter, a Catholic. The ceremony took place on June 23, 1833 in the Moscow Lutheran church. On October 13, 1841, Miller, a citizen of Bavaria, acquired Russian citizenship. On November 27, 1843 Ivan Ivanovich “due to illness” resigned in the rank of court counselor. The diary entries of Fyodor Alexeyevich Nekrasov reveal the dates of Miller’s death (February 26, 1868) and that of his wife Maria Adamovna (July 4, 1871).

When and where the marriage of Fyodor Nekrasov and Sophia Miller took place is not known.

The descendants have preserved a wedding ring, on the inside of which there is an engraving: “Fyodor Nekrasov <ap>ril 1864“. The ring was deformed, so part of the text of the engraving was lost.

Five children were born to Fyodor Alexeyevich’s family from his first marriage: Aleksey in 1865, Alexander in 1866, Nikolay in 1867, Elizaveta in 1868 and Maria in 1870.

The diary entries contain information about Sophia Nekrasova’s illness and death: on October 23, she went to town, on the 30th of the same month “became unwell”, she had a sore throat, and on November 2 at 5:30 p.m. she died.

According to the parish register of the church of the village of Abbakumtsevo, Sophia Ivanovna was buried on November 7, 1870 in the family tomb of the Nekrasov noble family which had been created by that time in the local cemetery. The document indicates her age (24), cause of death and day.