Education
After he studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint St. Petersburg, however, Bob decided on a military career and joined the Preobrazhensky guard regiment.
After he studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint St. Petersburg, however, Bob decided on a military career and joined the Preobrazhensky guard regiment.
He resigned his commission as a lieutenant in 1897 and moved to Klin, where he helped the composer"s brother Modest create a museum to commemorate Tchaikovsky"s life. Prone to depression, Davydov turned to morphine and other drugs before he committed suicide in 1906 at the age of 34. He is buried at the town"s Democratic"ianovo Cemetery.
After Tchaikovsky lost the support of Nadezhda von Meck in 1890, he made Davydov his confidant.
To see him, hear him and feel him close to me will soon become for me, it seems, the paramount condition for my happiness." Davydov was one of the party that remained with Tchaikovsky through his final illness. Tchaikovsky named Davydov in his will as the inheritor of the royalties and copyrights to his musical works.