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|Date=30 January/11 February 1892&lt;br /&gt;
|To=[[Pyotr Jurgenson]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=Russian&lt;br /&gt;
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 2791)&lt;br /&gt;
|Publication={{bib|1902/25|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 3}} (1902), p. 527 (abridged)&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;{{bib|1952/58|П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном ; том 2}} (1952), p. 232&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI-Б}} (1979), p. 31–32&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Text and Translation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Lettertext&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=Russian&lt;br /&gt;
|Translator=Brett Langston&lt;br /&gt;
|Original text={{right|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;30 яив[аря]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;}}&lt;br /&gt;
Возвращаю тебе копию с Бесселевского контракта. Откуда &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Фукс&amp;#039;&amp;#039; мог взять, что я оспариваю права &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Бесселя&amp;#039;&amp;#039; на «Опричника»? Я никогда этого и не думал. Конечно, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Бессель&amp;#039;&amp;#039; сделал свойственную его натуре &amp;#039;&amp;#039;подлость&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, подведя дело так, что я подписал это дурацкое условие, — но спорить я не собирался и не собираюсь. У меня есть смутное предположение когда-нибудь 2/3 «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Опричника&amp;#039;&amp;#039;» сделать заново и тогда эту оперу в новом виде отдать другому, — но Бог знает, когда это случится. Спорю же я о «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ромео и Юлии&amp;#039;&amp;#039;» вот уже очень давно и, к сожалению, не вижу в действиях &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Фукса&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ничего способного ускорить разрешение вопроса. Отчего это ничего не выходит из этого дела? Не понимаю.&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|Твой П. Чайковский}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|Translated text={{right|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;30 January&amp;#039;&amp;#039;}}&lt;br /&gt;
I&amp;#039;m returning to you the copy of the contract with [[Bessel]] &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;. Where did &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fuchs&amp;#039;&amp;#039; get the idea that I&amp;#039;m disputing &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Bessel]]&amp;#039;s&amp;#039;&amp;#039; rights to &amp;quot;[[The Oprichnik]]&amp;quot;? It never crossed my mind. Certainly &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Bessel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; displayed his characteristic &amp;#039;&amp;#039;skulduggery&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, having connived things so that I signed my name to this ridiculous condition, but I wasn&amp;#039;t about to argue the point, and do not intend to. I have a vague notion of re-doing around two-thirds of &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Oprichnik]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;, and then offering the opera in a new form to someone else—but God knows when this might happen. I could say the same about &amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Romeo and Juliet]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#039;s also water under the bridge, unfortunately, and I don&amp;#039;t see how &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fuchs&amp;#039;&amp;#039;{{&amp;#039;}} actions are capable of quickly resolving the matter. Why does nothing come of this? I don&amp;#039;t understand.&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|Yours 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;Tchaikovsky was replying to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]]&amp;#039;s letter of  29 January/10 February 1892, in which the publisher reported that the publisher [[Vasily Bessel]] was disputing the rights to perform the composer&amp;#039;s opera &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Oprichnik]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1870-72). In 1872 Tchaikovsky had granted [[Bessel]] the rights to publish the music and its libretto, but now he was reluctant to allow this old opera to be revived on the stage.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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