text: * the first wife - Raisa (died in 1906) - their marriage lasted 25 years.
  * the second wife - Evgenia Kuzmina-Karavaeva, pianist - their marriage lasted 25 years.
  **daughter Raisa Zelinskaya-Plate (1910-2001).
  *the third wife - Nina Evgenievna Zhukovskaya-Bok, an artist - their marriage lasted 20 years.
  **son Andrei (1933).
  **son Nikolai (1940)