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	* '''[[Letter 5065]]''' – 21 October/2 November 1893, from [[Saint Petersburg]]		* '''[[Letter 5065]]''' – 21 October/2 November 1893, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

	One letter from Grekov to the composer, dating from 4/16 October 1893, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].		One letter from Grekov to the composer, dating from 4/16 October 1893, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup\|4}}, No. 644).

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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	One letter from Grekov to the composer, dating from 4/16 October 1893, is preserved in the [[Klin]] ~~House-Museum Archive~~.		One letter from Grekov to the composer, dating from 4/16 October 1893, is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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Russian operatic artist and impresario (b. 1849; d. 1919), born '''''Ivan Nikolayevich Grekov''''' (Иван Николаевич Греков).

Grekov was of Don Cossack origins. He worked as a singer with the Maly Theatre Company in [[Moscow]] and also taught at the [[Moscow]] Theatrical School. Subsequently he became an impresario and manager of the Opera House in [[Odessa]], where Tchaikovsky's opera ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'' was produced in January 1893. Grekov had hoped that the composer himself would conduct the first performance. Although this did not work out, Tchaikovsky did attend the [[Odessa]] premiere of his opera on 19/31 January and was greatly impressed. Grekov was keen for Tchaikovsky to come to [[Odessa]] again during the 1893/94 season to conduct a performance of ''[[Iolanta]]'', and it was in connection with these plans that Tchaikovsky wrote to Grekov on 21 October/2 November 1893 ([[Letter 5065]]) — his last known letter. Grekov eventually went bankrupt and returned to the dramatic theatre. For a number of years he headed the [[Moscow]] Philharmonic School, from which [[Anton Chekhov]]'s future wife, Olga Knipper, and other famous actors graduated.

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Ivan Grekov has survived, dating from 1893, and has been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 5065]]''' – 21 October/2 November 1893, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

One letter from Grekov to the composer, dating from 4/16 October 1893, is preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.

==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1893/66}} (1893)
* {{bib|1893/67}} (1893)
* {{bib|1893/68}} (1893)
* {{bib|2001/12}} (2001)

[[Category:People|Grekov, Ivan]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Grekov, Ivan]]
[[Category:Impresarios|Grekov, Ivan]]
[[Category:Singers|Grekov, Ivan]]