Davydov, Yuri Lvovich

From an old noble family . The youngest son of Lev Vasilyevich Davydov (1837-1896) and Alexandra Ilyinichna Tchaikovsky (1842-1891). The nephew of the composer P.I. Tchaikovsky , the grandson of the Decembrist V.L. Davydov . Large landowner of the Kiev and Minsk provinces (more than 8500 acres ).

At the end of the Nikolaev Cavalry School in 1896, he was released as a cornet in the Life Guards Horse Grenadier Regiment .

In 1903 he entered the reserve with the rank of lieutenant and devoted himself to agriculture in his family estates. In the same year he was elected a member of the Chigirinsky district county council. In 1906 he was appointed Chigirinsky district leader of the nobility , in which position he remained until 1912. He was also an honorary magistrate for the Chigirinsky district, the vowel of the Kiev provincial zemstvo and the chairman of its audit commission. Of the awards he had the Order of St. Anne of the 2nd degree.

In addition, he consisted of: Chairman of the Kiev Society for Agriculture and Agricultural Industry, Chairman of the Board of the Mutual Insurance Society for Landowners of the Kiev, Podolsk and Volyn Provinces, Chairman of the Society for the Pension Fund of Employees in Agriculture and Agricultural Industry, Chairman of the Board of the Kiev Industrial Society for Mutual Credit, Director of Kiev Agricultural courses, the secretary of the Union of landowners and farmers of the Kiev province, and akzhe member of the Kyiv Chamber of export.

He was a member of the board of a number of other public, charitable and educational institutions. In early 1913 he was elected director of the Kiev branch of the Russian Musical Society . Later that year, he took an active part in organizing the Kiev exhibition and was an honorary comrade of the honorary chairman of the exhibition.

After the revolution of 1917 did not emigrate. Since 1937 he worked in the house-museum of P.I. Tchaikovsky in Klin, and since 1945 he was his chief curator. He left two books of memoirs about Tchaikovsky: “Notes on P. I. Tchaikovsky” (Moscow, 1962) and “The Klin years of Tchaikovsky’s work” (Moscow, 1965). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (06/22/1946) .

He died in 1965 in Klin. He was buried at the local Demyanovsky cemetery. He was married to Margarita Nikolaevna Lopukhina (1864-1931). Their children: Irina (1900-1989), Tatyana (1902-1925), Ksenia (1905-1989) and George.

• The ranks of the Court, the retinue of their Majesties and the hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire. - Kiev, 1913.

• Short biography on the Tchaikovsky Research website