Letter 22 - Revision history

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	<ref name="note2">Fyodor Fyodorovich Belyavsky (1839-1870), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence. Fyodor Maslov, another graduate of the school, later recalled: "When we entered the seventh form [in 1852; this was the schools junior-most form], Pyotr Ilyich was particularly friendly with Belyavsky, but I soon replaced the latter" — quoted from {{bib\|1993/186\|Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1993), p. 39.</ref>		<ref name="note2">Fyodor Fyodorovich Belyavsky (1839-1870), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence. Fyodor Maslov, another graduate of the school, later recalled: "When we entered the seventh form [in 1852; this was the schools junior-most form], Pyotr Ilyich was particularly friendly with Belyavsky, but I soon replaced the latter" — quoted from {{bib\|1993/186\|Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1993), p. 39.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov (1838-1905), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence.</ref>		<ref name="note3">Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov (1838-1905), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Vilgelmina ('Mina') and Yekaterina ('Katya') were younger sisters of Tchaikovsky's cousin [[Amaliya ~~Shobert~~]] (later Litke).</ref>		<ref name="note4">Vilgelmina ('Mina') and Yekaterina ('Katya') were younger sisters of Tchaikovsky's cousin [[Amaliya Schobert]] (later Litke).</ref>
	<ref name="note5">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>		<ref name="note5">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>
	<ref name="note6">Anastasiya Petrovna Petrova (1824–1893) had joined the Tchaikovsky family in [[Alapayevsk]] on 24 November/6 December 1849 as a governess, specifically with the task of preparing Pyotr for the School of Jurisprudence in [[Saint Petersburg]]. After spending some three years with the Tchaikovskys she worked as a governess in various other families, but returned to her first employer in 1859, when she took charge of the twins, [[Anatoly]] and [[Modest]].</ref>		<ref name="note6">Anastasiya Petrovna Petrova (1824–1893) had joined the Tchaikovsky family in [[Alapayevsk]] on 24 November/6 December 1849 as a governess, specifically with the task of preparing Pyotr for the School of Jurisprudence in [[Saint Petersburg]]. After spending some three years with the Tchaikovskys she worked as a governess in various other families, but returned to her first employer in 1859, when she took charge of the twins, [[Anatoly]] and [[Modest]].</ref>

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{{letterhead
|Date=30 April/12 May 1851
|To=[[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya]] and [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 27–28)
|Publication={{bib|1940/210|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 25 <br/>{{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 27.
|Notes=Postscript to a letter from [[Nikolay Tchaikovsky]]. Includes a postscript to Lidiya Tchaikovskaya.
}}

==Text and Translation==
Spelling and punctuation errors in the original text have not been indicated.
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{centre|Милые мои Папаша и Мамаша!}}
Скоро у нас будет роспуск на каникулы и я ожидаю вас с нетерпением, у нас также скоро экзамен, от которого зависит мой переход в 1-ое Отделение. Говорят, что я непременно перейду, но есть препятствие; говорят, что я слишком молод.

В среду 25 Апреля я праздновал моё рожденье и очень плакал вспоминая счастливое время которое я проводил прошлый год в Алапаихе но у меня были 2 друга Белявский, и Дохтуров, которые меня утешали. Мамашичка вы видели, когда я поступил в приг[отовительный] кл[асс] Белявского, я вам говорил, что он мой друг.

Благодарю милые мои сестры за то что вы потрудились так хорошо вышить маленькие вещицы, а вас милые Папаша и мамаша благодарю за деньги которые вы нам послали.
Поцелуйте за меня Сашу, Полю, Толю, Модю, Малю, Мину и Катю. Целую ручки у тёте Лизе, сестрицы и Настасье Петровны. Прощайте милые Папаша и Мамаша.

Прошу вашего Благословления. Ваш сын,
{{right|П. Чайковский}}
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{{centre|Милая Кузина}}
Так как ты желаешь чтоб я тебе писал то исполняю это. Мне совершенно нечего писать. Женя Шателен и её муж Александр Павл[ович] Нормандский приезжали к Ив[ану] Ив[ановичу] сегодня как новобрачные (мы сегодня у Ив. Ив. Вейца). Саша Вейц целует Сашу, Полю, Малю и Катю. — Мину же она не хочет целовать она говорит что она очень капризная. Твой брат,
{{right|Пётр Чайковский}}

|Translated text={{centre|My dear [[Papasha]] and [[Mamasha]]!}}
We will soon be breaking up for the holidays, and I am expecting you impatiently. We are soon also having an exam on which depends my moving up into the 1st Section <ref name="note1"/>. I am told that I will definitely move up, but there is one obstacle: apparently I am too young.

On Wednesday 25 April I celebrated my birthday and cried very much as I remembered the happy time which I had last year in [[Alapaikha]], but there were two friends with me, Belyavsky <ref name="note2"/> and Dokhturov <ref name="note3"/>, who comforted me. [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|Mamashichka]], you saw Belyavsky when I joined the preparatory class; I told you that he was my friend.

Thank you, my dear sisters, for taking the trouble to embroider so nicely those small things, and I thank you too, dear [[Papasha]] and [[mamasha]], for the money which you sent us.

Kiss for me [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Tolya]], [[Modya]], [[Malya]], Mina, and Katya <ref name="note4"/>. I kiss the hands of [[Aunt Liza]], Sestritsa <ref name="note5"/>, and Nastasya Petrovna <ref name="note6"/>. Goodbye, dear [[Papasha]] and [[Mamasha]].

I ask for your blessing. Your son,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
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{{centre|Dear Cousin <ref name="note7"/> }}
Since you wish me to write to you, I am carrying this out. I have absolutely nothing to write about. Zheniya Shatelen <ref name="note8"/> and her husband Aleksandr Pavlovich Normandsky came to Ivan Ivanovich's house today as newly-weds (we are at Ivan Ivanovich Veyts's today<ref name="note9"/>). Sasha Veyts kisses [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Malya]], and Katya; but Mina she does not want to kiss: she says that she is very capricious.
{{right|Your brother<br/>Pyotr Tchaikovsky }}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The "first section" was the last year of the preparatory class affiliated to the Imperial School of Jurisprudence which prepared pupils for entry into the school proper.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Fyodor Fyodorovich Belyavsky (1839-1870), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence. Fyodor Maslov, another graduate of the school, later recalled: "When we entered the seventh form [in 1852; this was the schools junior-most form], Pyotr Ilyich was particularly friendly with Belyavsky, but I soon replaced the latter" — quoted from {{bib|1993/186|Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1993), p. 39.</ref>
<ref name="note3">Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov (1838-1905), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Vilgelmina ('Mina') and Yekaterina ('Katya') were younger sisters of Tchaikovsky's cousin [[Amaliya Shobert]] (later Litke).</ref>
<ref name="note5">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>
<ref name="note6">Anastasiya Petrovna Petrova (1824–1893) had joined the Tchaikovsky family in [[Alapayevsk]] on 24 November/6 December 1849 as a governess, specifically with the task of preparing Pyotr for the School of Jurisprudence in [[Saint Petersburg]]. After spending some three years with the Tchaikovskys she worked as a governess in various other families, but returned to her first employer in 1859, when she took charge of the twins, [[Anatoly]] and [[Modest]].</ref>
<ref name="note7">The composer's cousin Lidiya Vladimirovna Tchaikovskaya (married name Olkhovskaya; 1836-1892) was the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s elder brother, [[Vladimir Tchaikovsky|Vladimir]]. She lost her mother when she was quite little, in 1842, and was effectively adopted by [[Ilya]] and his wife [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|Aleksandra]].</ref>
<ref name="note8">Yevgeniya Shatelen was probably the sister of Aleksandr Shatelen, a cousin of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s first wife, Mariya Karlovna (née Keizer; d. 1831). Note based on information provided in {{bib|1995/134|М. И. Чайковский. Из семейных воспоминаний}} (1995), p. 61.</ref>
<ref name="note9">After their first guardian, Modest Alekseyevich Vakar (a friend of their father's), left [[Saint Petersburg]] in April 1851 to settle elsewhere, young Pyotr and his brother [[Nikolay]], two years his senior, were briefly under the tutelage of Ivan Ivanovich Veyts, another close friend of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s. Pyotr and [[Nikolay]] were both boarders at their respective institutions — the School of Jurisprudence and the Mining College — but on Sundays and other holidays they were allowed to stay at their guardian's house.</ref>
</references>
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	\|Language=Russian		\|Language=Russian
	\|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 27–28)		\|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 27–28)
	\|Publication={{bib\|1940/210\|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 25 <br/>{{bib\|1959/50\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 27.		\|Publication={{bib\|1940/210\|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 25 <br/>{{bib\|1959/50\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 27
	\|Notes=Postscript to a letter from [[Nikolay Tchaikovsky]]. Includes a postscript to Lidiya Tchaikovskaya.		\|Notes=Postscript to a letter from [[Nikolay Tchaikovsky]]. Includes a postscript to Lidiya Tchaikovskaya.
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	On Wednesday 25 April I celebrated my birthday and cried very much as I remembered the happy time which I had last year in [[Alapaikha]], but there were two friends with me, Belyavsky <ref name="note2"/> and Dokhturov <ref name="note3"/>, who comforted me. [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya\|Mamashichka]], you saw Belyavsky when I joined the preparatory class; I told you that he was my friend.		On Wednesday 25 April I celebrated my birthday and cried very much as I remembered the happy time which I had last year in [[Alapaikha]], but there were two friends with me, Belyavsky <ref name="note2"/> and Dokhturov <ref name="note3"/>, who comforted me. [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya\|Mamashichka]], you saw Belyavsky when I joined the preparatory class; I told you that he was my friend.

	Thank you, my dear sisters, for taking the trouble to embroider so nicely those small things, and I thank you too, dear [[Papasha]] and [[~~mamasha~~]], for the money which you sent us.		Thank you, my dear sisters, for taking the trouble to embroider so nicely those small things, and I thank you too, dear [[Papasha]] and [[Mamasha]], for the money which you sent us.

	Kiss for me [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Tolya]], [[Modya]], [[Malya]], Mina, and Katya <ref name="note4"/>. I kiss the hands of [[Aunt Liza]], Sestritsa <ref name="note5"/>, and Nastasya Petrovna <ref name="note6"/>. Goodbye, dear [[Papasha]] and [[Mamasha]].		Kiss for me [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Tolya]], [[Modya]], [[Malya]], Mina and Katya <ref name="note4"/>. I kiss the hands of [[Aunt Liza]], Sestritsa <ref name="note5"/> and Nastasya Petrovna <ref name="note6"/>. Goodbye, dear [[Papasha]] and [[Mamasha]].

	I ask for your blessing. Your son,		I ask for your blessing. Your son,
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	{{centre\|Dear Cousin <ref name="note7"/> }}		{{centre\|Dear Cousin <ref name="note7"/> }}
	Since you wish me to write to you, I am carrying this out. I have absolutely nothing to write about. Zheniya Shatelen <ref name="note8"/> and her husband Aleksandr Pavlovich Normandsky came to Ivan Ivanovich's house today as newly-weds (we are at Ivan Ivanovich Veyts's today<ref name="note9"/>). Sasha Veyts kisses [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Malya]], and Katya; but Mina she does not want to kiss: she says that she is very capricious.		Since you wish me to write to you, I am carrying this out. I have absolutely nothing to write about. Zheniya Shatelen <ref name="note8"/> and her husband Aleksandr Pavlovich Normandsky came to Ivan Ivanovich's house today as newly-weds (we are at Ivan Ivanovich Veyts's today<ref name="note9"/>). Sasha Veyts kisses [[Sasha]], [[Polya]], [[Malya]] and Katya; but Mina she does not want to kiss: she says that she is very capricious.
	{{right\|Your brother<br/>Pyotr Tchaikovsky }}		{{right\|Your brother<br/>Pyotr Tchaikovsky }}
	}}		}}
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	<references>		<references>
	<ref name="note1">The "first section" was the last year of the preparatory class affiliated to the Imperial School of Jurisprudence which prepared pupils for entry into the school proper.</ref>		<ref name="note1">The "first section" was the last year of the preparatory class affiliated to the Imperial School of Jurisprudence which prepared pupils for entry into the school proper.</ref>
	<ref name="note2">Fyodor Fyodorovich Belyavsky (1839-1870), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence. Fyodor Maslov, another graduate of the school, later recalled: "When we entered the seventh form [in 1852; this was the ~~schools~~ junior-most form], Pyotr Ilyich was particularly friendly with Belyavsky, but I soon replaced the latter" — quoted from {{bib\|1993/186\|Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1993), p. 39.</ref>		<ref name="note2">Fyodor Fyodorovich Belyavsky (1839-1870), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence. Fyodor Maslov, another graduate of the school, later recalled: "When we entered the seventh form [in 1852; this was the school's junior-most form], Pyotr Ilyich was particularly friendly with Belyavsky, but I soon replaced the latter" — quoted from {{bib\|1993/186\|Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1993), p. 39.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov (1838-1905), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence.</ref>		<ref name="note3">Dmitry Petrovich Dokhturov (1838-1905), classmate of Tchaikovsky's at the School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Vilgelmina ('Mina') and Yekaterina ('Katya') were younger sisters of Tchaikovsky's cousin [[Amaliya Schobert]] (later Litke).</ref>		<ref name="note4">Vilgelmina ('Mina') and Yekaterina ('Katya') were younger sisters of Tchaikovsky's cousin [[Amaliya Schobert]] (later Litke).</ref>