and manager of the famed Kamsko-Votkinsk Ironworks. [ 5 ] The composer's mother, Alexandra Andreyevna nˆ©e d'Assier, 18 years her husband's junior, was of partial French ancestry, and was the second of Ilya's three wives. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Tchaikovsky had four brothers (Nikolai, Ippolit, and twins Anatoly and