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Dmitriy Shostakovich met his first wife, Nina Varzar, at the tennis courts of Detskoye Selo, while vacationing there during the summer,1 in 1927.2 His second wife, Margarita Kainova, he met in June 1956, during Moscow's World Festival of Youth.3 Shostakovich met his third and last wife, Irina Supinskaya, through his friend Lev Lebedinskiy, and also possibly through her work as literary editor for Shostakovich's scores.4

1 Elizabeth Wilson, Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 101.

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