The family von Meck around 1875. The baroness Nadezhda Filaretovna is left and holding in her arms the youngest daughter, Ljudmila (Milochka). This little girl was in reality the illegitimate daughter of Alexander Yolshin, sitting on the left and too secretary of the Baroness' husband, the engineer Karl von Meck (center with dark hat). Karl-unaware of the fact-heard of this truth by their second daughter Alexandra thing that caused the death of man to heart attack. The children of the couple von Meck were as many as 18 (between 1848 and 1872), of which 11 survivors. In the photo in the center with white hat, Vladimir, one of the favorite sons of the Baroness.