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{{letterhead
|Date=7/19 January 1893
|To=[[Eugénie Vergin Colonne]]
|Place=[[Paris]]
|Language=French
|Autograph={{locunknown}}
|Publication={{bibx|1906/30|The Musical Courier}} (29 August 1906) [facsimile] <br/>{{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 33 (with English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 392 (with Russian translation, p. 393)
|Notes=
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|''19 Janvier [18]93''<br/>''Paris''}}
{{centre|Chère Madame! }}
Bien des fois je me suis adressé à mon ami Colonne pour lui recommander des compatriotes, qui voudraient se faire entendre {{sic|au|aux}} concerts du {{sic|Chatelet|Châtelet}}. Je sais combien il est difficile pour lui de trouver une place pour chaque artiste qui lui est bien recommandé; aussi jamais n'ai j'été désappointé quand mes lettres de recommandations n'aboutissent à aucun résultat. Mais aujourd'hui je m'adresse à lui par Votre intermédiaire non comme à Colonne, chef d'orchestre célèbre, mais comme à l'ami. De grâce qu'il sacrifice un quart d'heure de son temps pour mon jeune protégé ''Petchnikoff'', lequel de reste Vous {{sic|conaissez|connaissez}} pour l'avoir entendu au Conservatoire à Moscou. Mais ceci ne suffirait pas: je Vous demande en grâce, je Vous supplie, je Vous implore comme la plus grande manifestation de Votre amitié (que j'{{sic|apprecie|apprécie}} {{sic|ènormèment|énormément}} — de lui trouver une petite place dans un des Concerts du {{sic|Chatelet|Châtelet}}. Je considèrerai cela comme un vrai bonheur ''pour moi''. D'ailleurs le jeune homme est vraiment un talent hors ligne et je suis sûr que Vous serez content de lui!

De grâce, chère bonne Madame, soyez mon {{sic|interprete|interprète}} auprès de Votre cher mari et priez le bien de faire ce que je {{sic|désir|désire}} ardemment. Pour le jeune homme c'est une grosse affaire: il y va de toute sa carrière. Je me mets à Vos pieds.
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky }}

|Translated text={{right|''19 January 1893''<br/>''[[Paris]]''}}
{{centre|Dear Madame!}}
On many an occasion I have written to my friend [[Colonne]] to recommend to him compatriots of mine who would like to be heard at the Châtelet concerts <ref name="note1"/>. I know how difficult it is for him to find a place for every artist who has been recommended to him in such terms; and, moreover, I have never felt disappointed when my letters of recommendation came to nothing. Today, though, I am addressing myself to him, through your mediation, not in his capacity as [[Colonne]], the famous conductor, but as to a friend. I beg him to sacrifice a quarter of an hour of his time for my young protégé ''Pechnikov'', whom, by the way, you know, since you heard him at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory <ref name="note2"/>. However, that would not be enough: I ask you kindly—nay, I beseech, I implore you, by way of the greatest manifestation of your friendship (which I cherish enormously), to find him a little slot in one of the Châtelet concerts. I would consider this as a true blessing ''for me''. Besides, this young man is truly exceptionally talented, and I am certain that you will be satisfied with him!

I beg you, dear, kind Madame: would you be my spokeswoman with regard to your dear husband and ask him emphatically to do what I so ardently wish? For the young man it is a matter of great consequence: his whole career depends on it. I throw myself before your feet.
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">See, for example, [[Letter 4602]] to [[Édouard Colonne]], 16/28 [?] January 1892, in which Tchaikovsky recommends the mezzo-soprano Yelena Iosifovna Teryan-Korganova (b. 1864), or [[Letter 4782b]] to [[Colonne]], 9/21 October 1892, written on behalf of a young Russian pianist.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Aleksandr Abramovich Pechnikov (1873–1949) studied violin at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory under [[Jan Hřímalý]], graduating in 1891. Thanks to Tchaikovsky's mediation [[Colonne]] had been engaged to conduct a Russian Musical Society concert in [[Moscow]] on 23 March/4 April 1890, and subsequently he was invited a number of times to Russia to conduct concerts in both [[Moscow]] and [[Saint Petersburg]]. It seems that during one of these visits [[Colonne]] and his wife [[Eugénie Vergin Colonne|Eugénie]], who accompanied him to Russia, attended a student performance at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory and heard the young Pechnikov play. Pechnikov had performed Tchaikovsky's [[Violin Concerto]] in public as early as 19/31 August 1892, at a concert in [[Moscow]] conducted by Vojtěch Hlaváč (Voytekh Glavach; 1849–1911). See {{bib|1940/107|Дни и годы П. И. Чайковского}} (1940), p. 556. In 1899, during a tour of America, Pechnikov would give the first performance in Chicago of the [[Violin Concerto]].</ref>
</references>

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