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|Date=24 October/5 November 1891<br />
|To=[[Vasily Safonov]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}}<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1940/206|Радянська музика}} (1940), No. 2, p. 44–46<br/>{{bib|1981/80|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVII}} (1981), p. 257<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|24 окт[ября]}}<br />
{{centre|Многоуважаемый Василий Ильич!}}<br />
Я передавал уже через Кашкина, а ещё недавно через Александру Ивановну и, наконец, лично дал членам фонда на их вопрос, согласен ли я дирижировать в концерте их, — ответ: ''нет''. Это не каприз и не нежелание содействовать доброму делу, а прямо ''невозможность'', ибо так сложились обстоятельства.<br />
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Весьма сожалею, что с этой просьбой фонд не обратился ко мне раньше, т. е. летом или, по крайней мере, в сентябре. Я бы тогда, быть может, иначе распорядился.<br />
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Теперь безусловно принуждён отказать, о чем весьма сожалею.<br />
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Искренно преданный,<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|24 October}}<br />
{{centre|Most respected [[Vasily Safonov|Vasily Ilyich]]!}}<br />
I have already transmitted via [[Kashkin]], and even more recently via [[Aleksandra Hubert|Aleksandra Ivanovna]] <ref name="note1"/>, and finally I gave the members of the fund the answer to their question whether I could conduct at their concert: ''no'' <ref name="note2"/>. This is neither a whim nor a reluctance to promote a good cause, but a plain ''impossibility'', because of the way in which circumstances have transpired.<br />
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It is highly regrettable that the fund did not approach me with their request earlier, i.e. in the summer of, in September at the latest. Then I could perhaps have made alternative arrangements.<br />
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Now it goes without saying that I am obliged to refuse, which I regret very much.<br />
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Sincerely devoted,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">See [[Letter 4516]] to [[Aleksandra Hubert]], 19/31 October 1891.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">The charitable fund in aid of the orphans and widows of musical artists had asked Tchaikovsky to conduct at their planned concert in [[Moscow]] during the winter of 1891, at a time when the composer had scheduled other engagements. The charitable concert did not ultimately take place.</ref><br />
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