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Cui married Mal ' vina Rafailovna Bamberg ( Мальвина Рафаиловна Бамберг ) in 1858.

He had met her at the home of Alexander Dargomyzhsky, from whom she was taking singing lessons Among the musical works Cui dedicated to her is the early Scherzo, Op.

1 ( 1857 ), which uses themes based on her maiden name ( BAmBErG ) and his own initials ( C. C.

), and the comic opera The Mandarin's Son.

César and Mal ' vina had two children, Lidiya and Aleksandr.

Lidiya, an amateur singer, married and had a son named Yuri Borisovich Amoretti ; in the period before the October Revolution Aleksandr was a member of the Russian Senate.