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|Date=4/16 November 1889<br />
|To=[[Herman Laroche]] and [[Yekaterina Laroche]]<br />
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]<br />
|Language=Russian/French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}}<br />
|Publication={{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 208<br />
|Notes=Photocopy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}}<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian and French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|4 Nov[embre] [18]89}}<br />
Pour qui ai-je acheté une livre de caviar? Pour faire plaisir à quel cochon la vielle Appollinaire а t'elle couru chez le charcutier? Pour quelle Polonaise de mauvais goût (car il faut en avoir beaucoup pour avoir choisi M[onsieu]r Laroche) me suis — je {{sic|approvisionne|approvisionné}} de bombons et de dragées? Et la grosse Antonine est ce qu'elle ne sue pas depuis ce matin pour confectionner un ''Kournik'' digne de Vos éloges? Мерзавец!<br />
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А впрочем, Бог с Вами, сидите и пишите. В концерт бы пришли сегодня вечером хоть к концу! Будет ужин с Антоном.<br />
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Не знаю, когда Вас увижу, — дела пропасть, устал как собака.<br />
{{right|Ваш, П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|4 November 1889}}<br />
For whom did I buy a pound of caviar? For the pleasure of which swine did old Appollinaire <ref name="note1"/> scurry out to the butcher's? For what Polish woman of poor taste (because you must have a great deal of it to have chosen Monsieur [[Laroche]]) have I stocked up with sweets and sugared almonds? And why has big Antonina <ref name="note2"/> been slaving since this morning to concoct a ''Kournik'' <ref name="note3"/> worthy of your praise? Scoundrels!<br />
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Still, God be with you, as you sit and write. You could at least have come for the end of the concert tonight <ref name="note4"/>. There's going to be a supper with [[Anton Rubinstein|Anton]].<br />
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I don't know when I'll see you — I have a pile of things to do, and I'm as tired as a dog.<br />
{{right|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Apollinariya Skvortsova, grandmother of the composer's friend [[Nikolay Konradi]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">[[Nikolay Konradi]]'s cook.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">A dome-shaped pie baked for special occasions, interlaced with thin pancakes and typically stuffed with chicken, mushrooms or rice.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">The second RMS symphony concert in [[Saint Petersburg]], conducted by [[Leopold Auer]], and featuring works by [[Borodin]], [[Chopin]], Svendsen, [[Schumann]], Dreyshock and [[Wagner]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett