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|Date=15/27 December 1888&lt;br /&gt;
|To=[[Claude Paul Taffanel]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Autograph=[[Paris]] (France): {{priv}}&lt;br /&gt;
|Publication={{bibx|1968/16|Revue de musicologie}}, tom 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 87&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 602&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Text and Translation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Lettertext&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Translator=Brett Langston&lt;br /&gt;
|Original text={{right|S[ain]t Pétersbourg&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;15/27 Decembre 1888}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{centre|Cher et très respecté ami!}}&lt;br /&gt;
Je suis chargé par la Direction de la &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Société Impériale Musicale Russe&amp;#039;&amp;#039; de Vous remercier pour la précieuse promesse que Vous nous donnez de venir à Moscou vers le 9 Fevrier pour prendre part à un de nos concerts. On se réjouit beaucoup de pouvoir Vous entendre et Vous posséder dans nos enceintes pour quelque temps. Malheureusement pour moi, je ne pourrai Vous faire personnellement les honneurs de Moscou, car dès la fin de &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Janvier&amp;#039;&amp;#039; j&amp;#039;entreprends une grande &amp;#039;&amp;#039;tournée&amp;#039;&amp;#039; en Allemagne, et il est fort probable, que je me trouverai à Paris justement quand Vous serez à Moscou, car j&amp;#039;ai l&amp;#039;intention de Cologne, où je serai vers le 5 {{sic|Fevrier|Février}}, d&amp;#039;aller pour quelques jours à Paris spécialement pour voir mes amis. Mais soyez certain que l&amp;#039;on fera tout ce qui est possible pour que Moscou Vous plaise et pour que Vous en conserviez un bon souvenir.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Le chef d&amp;#039;orchestre de la Société, M[onsieu]r Max &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Erdmannsdoerfer&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Vous prie de vouloir bien le prévenir quel est le morceau ou les morceaux que Vous jouerez et de lui dire où et comment peut on obtenir les partitions ou les parties séparées des pièces que Vous ferez entendre aux Moscovites. Son adresse est: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Moscou, Loubianka, Hôtel Billo, M[onsieu]r Max Erdmannsdoerfer&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Je suis sûr que la section de notre Société de Pétersbourg profitera de Votre voyage à Moscou pour Vous inviter à jouer à Petersbourg. Je vais en parler ce soir et leur donnerai Votre adresse. Je suis bien malheureux en pensant que je ne serai pas là quand Vous viendrez.&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|Translated text={{right|[[Saint Petersburg]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;15/27 December 1888}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{centre|Dear and most respected friend!}}&lt;br /&gt;
On behalf of the Directorate of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Imperial Russian Musical Society&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, thank you for the valuable commitment you have given to come to [[Moscow]] for 9 February to participate in one of our concerts &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;. We are very happy to hear you and to have you with amongst us for some time. Unfortunately for me, I will not be able to have the honour of making your acquaintance in [[Moscow]], because from the end of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;January&amp;#039;&amp;#039; I am embarking on a grand &amp;#039;&amp;#039;tour&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Germany, and it is highly probable that I will find myself in [[Paris]] just as you are in [[Moscow]], because from [[Cologne]], where I will be around 5 February, I intend to go to [[Paris]] for a few days specially to see my friends. But be assured that everything possible will be done to please you in [[Moscow]] and that you will retain good memories of it.&lt;br /&gt;
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The leader of the Society&amp;#039;s orchestra, Monsieur [[Max Erdmannsdörfer|Max &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Erdmannsdörfer&amp;#039;&amp;#039;]] enquires which piece or pieces you will be playing, and to tell him where the score or individual parts might be obtained for the pieces which Muscovites will be hearing. His address is: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Moscow]], Lubyanka, Hôtel Billo, Monsieur [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. I am sure that the [[Petersburg]] section of our Society will take advantage of your trip to [[Moscow]] to invite you to play in [[Petersburg]]. I am going to discuss it this evening and give them your address. I am most saddened to think that I will not be there when you arrive.&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Notes and References==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Taffanel]] had agreed to perform at the seventh Russian Musical Society concert in [[Moscow]] on 9/21 February 1889, where he would play [[Mozart]]&amp;#039;s Flute Concerto in D major, and the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Romance&amp;#039;&amp;#039; by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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