Editing Maxim Berezovsky (section)

====Married life====
In 1763, at the age of 18, Berezovsky married a girl he had known since his days at Oranienbaum, a court ballerina named Franzina Uberscher,{{sfn|Shumilina|2018}} who was the daughter of one of the court orchestra's [[Horn (instrument)|horn]] players.<ref name="Rud" /> Berezovsky belonged to the [[Russian Orthodox Church]], and Franzina was a [[Roman Catholic]], so permission had to be sought for the marriage. Having worked for 11 years as a dancer in the court theatre, in 1774, she was dismissed due to her age.<ref name="Rud" />

According to the conductor musicologist {{Ill|Mstyslav Yurchenko|uk|Юрченко Мстислав Сергійович}}, Berezovsky had another wife named Nadiya Matviivna, but the Ukrainian musicologist Olga Shumilina asserts that Franzina changed her name when she married into the Orthodox Church.{{sfn|Shumilina|2018}}

It is not known for certain why, shortly after Berezovsky's death, a court employee received a payment from the imperial treasury that would normally have been given to his wife, who was still alive.<ref name="Pry" /> A year after her husband's death, Nadiya Matviivna, left without means of subsistence, died in poverty. The death certificate, dated 1 January 1778, named her as the wife of Berezovsky, a chamber orchestra musician.{{sfn|Shumilina|2018}}