Aleksey Sofronov
''Alexey Ivanovich Sofronov'' (Russian language, Russian: Алексей Иванович Софронов, 1859, Tiliktino, Klin Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire – 1925, Klin, Moscow Governorate, USSR) was a servant and close friend of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky since 1871. American researcher Roland John Wiley calls him the composer's “chief servant” and “household manager”. According to some researchers, Sofronov was Tchaikovsky's constant lover.V. S. Sokolov, a researcher of Tchaikovsky's biography, noted that the solution to the problem of the composer's sexual orientation is connected with a huge number of his unstudied letters. Some of them, for censorship reasons, were published in the Russian Empire and in Soviet times with abbreviations, and in some of the originals, whole “paragraphs [were] thickly obscured by later ‘well-wishers”. After the death of his employer, a significant part of his estate went to Alexey Sofronov by will. ...
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