Rachmaninov was born in Semyonovo, near Novgorod in north-western Russia, into a noble family of Tatar descent, who had been in the service of the Russian tsars since the 16th century.

• （拉赫玛尼诺夫出生于俄国的诺夫果罗德附近奥乃基的瑟基的一个世袭的贵族家庭，这个贵族在16世纪服务与俄国沙皇。