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|Date=7/19 December 1887<br />
|To=[[Karl Albrecht]]<br />
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]<br />
|Language=Russian and French<br />
|Autograph=[[Moscow]] (Russia): {{RUS-Mcm}} (Ф. 37, No. 65)<br />
|Publication=''{{bibx|1940/228|Чайковский на Московской сцене}}'' (1940), p. 292<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 288 }}<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian and French<br />
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist<br />
|Original text={{right|С[ело] Майданово}}<br />
{{centre|Карлуша!}}<br />
Написал один хорик, и посылаю тебе его — больше решительно теперь не могу. Авось впоследствии ещё несколько напишу.<br />
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Обнимаю!<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
Adieu mon cher ami! Soyez heureux, j'espère Vous revoir au printemps. <br />
{{centre|T. S. V. P.}}<br />
Dites à ''Конюс старший'', que demain je lui enverrai sa partition. Saluez Anna Léontievna, Karlouscha, Gennia et Millia et tout le monde.<br />
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|Translated text={{right|[[Maydanovo]] village}}<br />
{{centre|[[Karlusha]]!}}<br />
I've written one little chorus <ref name="note6"/> and am sending it to you — I definitely cannot do any more than this for now <ref name="note2"/>. Perhaps later on I'll be able to write a few more. <br />
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I hug you! <br />
{{right|''P. Tchaikovsky''}}<br />
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Farewell, my dear friend! Be happy, I hope to see you in the spring <ref name="note3"/>. <br />
{{centre|T. S. V. P. <ref name="note1"/>}}<br />
Tell the ''elder [[Georgy Konyus|Konyus]]'' that I'll send him his score tomorrow <ref name="note4"/>. Greetings to Anna Leontyevna, Karlusha, Zhenya, Mila, and everyone else <ref name="note5"/>. <br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">"Tournez s'il vous plait" (French) = 'Please turn the page'.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">For many years [[Karl Albrecht]] had been asking Tchaikovsky if he could contribute a few choruses to the anthologies of choral pieces which he was compiling. See, for example, [[Letter 1398]] to [[Albrecht]], 6/18 January 1880.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky switches to French here in imitation of [[Albrecht]], who in his letter to the composer of 4/16 December 1887 had written the last paragraph in a comic mixture of German and French. [[Albrecht]]'s letter has been published in {{bibx|1940/228| Чайковский на московской сцене}} (1940), p. 291–292.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky showed great interest in the work of [[Georgy Konyus]], who was then still a student at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory. The score in question was very likely [[Georgy Konyus|Konyus]]'s ''Ballad'' for orchestra, which was performed for the first time under the direction of [[Taneyev]] at a special concert to raise funds for hard-up Conservatory students on 24 February/7 March 1888—note by Vasily Kiselev in {{bibx|1940/228|Чайковский на московской сцене}} (1940), p. 293.</ref><br />
<ref name="note5">[[Albrecht]]'s wife and their children: Karl ("Karlusha"), Yevgeny ("Zhenya"), and Lyudmila ("Mila").</ref><br />
<ref name="note6">''[[Blessed is He Who Smiles]]'' ([[TH]] 83).</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett