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|Date=25 March/6 April 1893<br />
|To=[[Andrey Tchaikovsky]]<br />
|Place=[[Klin]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 419)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1981/80|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVII}} (1981), p. 72<br />
|Notes=Original incorrectly dated "24 March" {{OS}}<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''{{sic|24|25}} марта [18]93''}}<br />
{{centre|Милый друг Андрей!}}<br />
Согласно обещанию, посылаю тебе ''марш''. Оркестровать его придётся твоему капельмейстеру, ибо я состава подведомственного ему оркестра не знаю. Я посылаю голое фортепианное переложение; пусть он оркеструет ''полно'' и, если нужно, шумно, — но прошу ничего в ''сущности'' не прибавлять и не менять, т. е. гармония и мелодия должны остаться неприкосновенны. Очень тороплюсь, ибо сейчас уезжаю в Петербург. Крепко обнимаю тебя и всю семью.<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
Я не знаю, как твой полк называется, и поэтому не мог вписать его в заглавие.<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''{{sic|24|25}} March 1893''}}<br />
{{centre|Dear friend [[Andrey Tchaikovsky|Andrey]]!}}<br />
In accordance with my promise I'm sending you the ''March'' <ref name="note1"/>. It will have to be orchestrated by your Kapellmeister, because I don't know the compliment of forces in your orchestra. I'm sending a rudimentary piano arrangement; let him orchestrate it ''in full'', and, if necessary, noisily — but I ask that the ''substance'' must not be augmented or altered, i.e. the harmony and melody must remain untouched. I'm very rushed because I'm about to leave for [[Petersburg]]. I embrace you and the whole family.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
I don't know what your regiment is called, and therefore could not include it in the title.<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky wrote his [[Military March]] on 24 March/5 April 1893, at the request of his cousin [[Andrey Tchaikovsky]], commander of the 98th Yurevsky Infantry Regiment, who wrote on 28 February/12 March 1893: "There should be three sections in all, with something melodic and increasingly noisy". See also [[Letter 4928]] to [[Andrey Tchaikovsky]], 5/17 May 1893.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett