Who is Dmitri shostakovich family?

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Dmitriy Shostakovich was born to Dmitriy Boleslavovich Shostakovich1 and Sofiya Vasilyevna Kokoulina.2 He had one elder sister, Mariya (born in 1903)3 and one younger sister, Zoya (born in 1908).4 Shostakovich later married Nina Vasilyevna Varzar,5 with whom he had two children: Galina (born in 1936) and Maksim (born in 1938).6 After Varzar's death, Shostakovich remarried with Margarita Kainova,7 whom he shortly divorced.8 He later married Irina Supinskaya.9 (Neither of these later marriages produced children.) Shostakovich's most famous grandchild is Dmitriy Maksimovich Shostakovich (Maksim's son),10 who is noted for having performed his grandfather's piano compositions under Maksim Shostakovich's baton.11

1 Elizabeth Wilson, "Childhood and Youth," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 3.

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11 Dmitri Shostakovich, Concerto No. 1, Op. 35, Perf. Dmitri Shostakovich (Junior), I Musici de Montréal, Cond. Maxim Shostakovich, Chandos, 1992, CD.