Aleksandra Unkovskaya

Aleksandra Vasilevna Unkovskaya | Александра Васильевна Унковская (born Zakharina 1857–1927) was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was the daughter of Captain Vasily Vasilyevich Zakharin and Evdokia Petrovna, née Arsenyeva, a Russian noblewoman of the Arsenyev dynasty. She was a gifted violinist, and graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with a gold medal in the violin class of Professor Leopold Auer.