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|Date=16/28 August 1889<br />
|To=[[Semyon Kruglikov]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 259)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 171<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|16 августа}}<br />
{{centre|Многоуважаемый Семён Николаевич!}}<br />
Извините, что так долго не откликался на Ваше письмо.<br />
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Весьма радуюсь, что пиэска Вам понравилась!!!<br />
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Поздравьте меня: я окончил сегодня огромную партитуру балета. Целая гора с плеч свалилась. <br />
{{right|Ваш, П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|16 August}}<br />
{{centre|Most respected [[Semyon Kruglikov|Semyon Nikolayevich]]!}}<br />
I am sorry for having taken so long to respond to your letter <ref name="note1"/>.<br />
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I am extremely happy that you liked the little piece!!! <ref name="note2"/><br />
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Congratulate me; today I finished the enormous full score of the ballet <ref name="note3"/>. A whole mountain has been lifted off my shoulders.<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Letter from [[Semyon Kruglikov]] to Tchaikovsky dated 10/22 August 1889.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky was referring to the piano piece ''[[Valse-Scherzo (1889)|Valse-Scherzo]]'' in A major, which he had written for the journal ''Artist'', of which [[Kruglikov]] was the editor of the music section. It would be published in the September 1889 edition.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">''[[The Sleeping Beauty]]''.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett