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|Date=8/20 November 1891<br />
|To=[[Yelena Samoylova]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=Cleveland (Ohio, USA): {{priv}}<br />
|Publication={{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 261<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|8 ноября 1891}}<br />
{{centre|Милостивая государыня!}}<br />
Я очень сожалею, что нездоровье заставило меня просидеть весь вчерашний день дома и лишило возможности послушать Вас. Надеюсь, что это мне удастся в другой раз.<br />
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С истинным почтением,<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|8 November 1891}}<br />
{{centre|Gracious Madam!}}<br />
I am very sorry that ill health compelled me to spend all yesterday sitting at home, and deprived me of the opportunity to listen to you <ref name="note1"/>. I hope to manage this on another occasion.<br />
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With sincere respect,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from [[Yelena Samoylova]] dated 5/17 November 1891, in which she invited him to her debut performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]], in [[Meyerbeer]]'s opera ''Les Huguenots'', on 7/19 November.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett