* 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)