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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer of the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker and of the Sixth Symphony.

Lived1840 – 1893
Known asComposer
Birthplace or main placeVotkinsk
Places on the mapSt Petersburg, Moscow
Map of the world around Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1815Votkinsk
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Who ruled these places in his lifetime

PlaceAt birth (map of 1815)At death (map of 1880)
VotkinskRussian Empiresame
St PetersburgRussian Empiresame
MoscowRussian Empiresame

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Further reading

Contemporaries

LivedPerson
1815 – 1898Otto von BismarckChancellor of Germany
1819 – 1901Queen VictoriaQueen of the United Kingdom
1828 – 1910Leo TolstoyWriter
1835 – 1908Empress Dowager CixiDe facto ruler of Qing China
1825 – 1891Pedro II of BrazilEmperor of Brazil
1844 – 1913Menelik IIEmperor of Ethiopia
1802 – 1885Victor HugoWriter
1818 – 1883Karl MarxPhilosopher and economist
1807 – 1882Giuseppe GaribaldiLeader of Italian unification
1809 – 1882Charles DarwinNaturalist

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.