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{{letterhead
|Date=29 November/11 December 1878
|To=[[Karl Albrecht]]
|Place=[[Florence]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Moscow]]: {{RUS-Mt}}
|Publication={{bibx|1940/228|Чайковский на Московской сцене}} (1940), p. 280–281 <br/>{{bib|1962/102|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том VII}} (1962), p. 491–492
|Notes=Original incorrectly dated "29 November/10 December"
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|{{datestyle|''Флоренция''|29 н[оября]|{{sic|10|11}} д[екабря]|1878}} }}
{{center|Милый и дорогой Карлуша!}}
Как ты поживаешь? Что делается в Консерватории? Что твоя жена и дети? Что «Евгений Онегин»? Через неделю он пойдёт. Напиши мне, голубчик мой, как сойдёт предстваление, кто отличится и, напротив, кто осрамится.

Я живу в безусловном одиночестве. Кроме своего Алёши, никого не вижу. Квартирка моя за городом, в чудесной местности, с видом на город и окрестности, с розами в саду и с зелёненькой травкой. Впрочем, сегодня такая отвратительная погода с дождём и снегом, что я с завистью думаю о хорошем зимнем дне в Москве. Я пишу ''сюиту'' для оркестра и занимаюсь не без усердия. Иногда хожу пешком в чудесный, милый город и захожу в галереи и картинами. По правде сказать, хотя иногда, когда подумаю о тебе и других друзьях, мне взгрустнётся, — но я ''совершенно счастлив'', наслаждаюсь своим одиночеством и нисколько, ни единой минуты не сожалею, что уехал из Москвы. Я провёл в Москве свои лучшие годы, я её очень люблю, — но теперь я бы не мог в ней жить иначе, как томясь и тоскуя. Только в деревне или за границей, где меня никто не знает, я покоен. Вообще жить, как прежде, я бы в Москве не мог, — а при новых обстоятельствах она для меня совсем невыносима. Одного только мне здесь недостаёт: это музыки. Если б от времени до времени здесь можно было слушать хорошую музыку, то я мог бы без скуки прожить целые месяцы. Вот ради музыки-то я и уеду отсюда недели через две, но куда—я сам не знаю, а покамест напиши мне письмо сюда. Напиши, хотя вкратце, что ты делаешь, а также про «Онегина». ''Адрес: Florence, Viale dei Colli, Restaurant Bonciani''. Хорошенько поклонись от меня всем друзьям, жене и детям. Тебя и крепко и нежно обнимаю.
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}
Если ты что-нибудь из моих вещей продашь, то отдай деньги Николаю Львовичу, для передачи моему кредитору ''Шеншину''.

|Translated text={{right|{{datestyle|''Florence''|29 November|{{sic|10|11}} December <ref name="note1"/>|1878}} }}
{{centre|Dear and cherished [[Karlusha]]!}}
How are you getting on? What's happening at the Conservatory? How are your wife and children? What about ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''? In a week's time it will be staged <ref name="note2"/>. Write to me, my golubchik, and tell me how the performance goes, which members of the cast distinguish themselves, and conversely, which of them manage to cover themselves with shame.

I am living in absolute solitude. I see no one apart from my [[Alyosha]]. My small flat is out of town, in a wonderful area from which one can look down on the city itself and the environs, and which has a garden with roses and flourishing green grass. Today, however, the weather is so repulsive, with rain and snow, that I think enviously of a fine winter's day in [[Moscow]]. I am writing a ''[[Suite No. 1|suite]]'' for orchestra and I am working on this quite assiduously <ref name="note3"/>. Sometimes I walk into the wonderful and nice city, and look in at the picture galleries. To be honest, although sometimes, when I think about you and other friends, I feel sad, still I am ''completely happy'', I enjoy my solitude and do not regret at all, not for one moment, that I left [[Moscow]]. I spent my best years in [[Moscow]], I love the place very much, but to have to live there now would only cause me agony and depression. Only in the countryside or abroad, where no one knows me, can I be calm. Indeed, I would not be able to live in [[Moscow]] as I did before, and given the new circumstances, that city is quite unbearable for me. There is only one thing I miss here, and that is music. If from time to time it were possible to hear good music in this place, then I could spend whole months here without feeling bored. In fact, it is precisely for the sake of music that within two weeks or so I shall be leaving here—but I don't know where I shall go, so for the time being write to me while I'm still here. Write to me, even if only briefly, about what you are doing, as well as about "[[Onegin]]". The address is: ''[[Florence]], Viale dei Colli, Restaurant Bonciani''. Give my very warm regards to all our friends, to your wife and children. As for you, I hug you both tightly and affectionately.
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
If you manage to sell any of my things, give the money to Nikolay Lvovich <ref name="note4"/> so that he can pass it on to ''Shenshin'' <ref name="note5"/>, my creditor.
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky's slip of the pen for 11 December {{NS}}.</ref>
<ref name="note2">At the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, whose staff Tchaikovsky had left for good in early/mid October 1878, rehearsals were going on for a student performance of the first four scenes of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''.</ref>
<ref name="note3">During his stay in [[Florence]] Tchaikovsky worked on the orchestration of the last two movements of his [[Suite No. 1]].</ref>
<ref name="note4">Nikolay Lvovich Bochechkarov (d. 1879), an eccentric old man whom Tchaikovsky provided with financial support during his years in [[Moscow]]. After his decision to leave [[Moscow]] for good in early/mid October 1878 some of the furniture and belongings in Tchaikovsky's flat had to be disposed of, and it seems that [[Albrecht]] had offered to help with this. For more information on Bochechkarov's role in Tchaikovsky's life, see {{bib|1991/72| Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1991), and {{bib|2009/16|Пётр Чайковский: Биография}} (2009).</ref>
<ref name="note5">Dmitry Semyonovich Shenshin (1828-1897), retired major-general and Tchaikovsky's creditor in [[Moscow]].</ref>
</references>
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	How are you getting on? What's happening at the Conservatory? How are your wife and children? What about ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''? In a week's time it will be staged <ref name="note2"/>. Write to me, my golubchik, and tell me how the performance goes, which members of the cast distinguish themselves, and conversely, which of them manage to cover themselves with shame.		How are you getting on? What's happening at the Conservatory? How are your wife and children? What about ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''? In a week's time it will be staged <ref name="note2"/>. Write to me, my golubchik, and tell me how the performance goes, which members of the cast distinguish themselves, and conversely, which of them manage to cover themselves with shame.

	I am living in absolute solitude. I see no one apart from my [[Alyosha]]. My small flat is out of town, in a wonderful area from which one can look down on the city itself and the environs, and which has a garden with roses and flourishing green grass. Today, however, the weather is so repulsive, with rain and snow, that I think enviously of a fine winter's day in [[Moscow]]. I am writing a ''[[Suite No. 1\|suite]]'' for orchestra and I am working on this quite assiduously <ref name="note3"/>. Sometimes I walk into the wonderful and nice city, and look in at the picture galleries. To be honest, although sometimes, when I think about you and other friends, I feel sad, still I am ''completely happy'', I enjoy my solitude and do not regret at all, not for one moment, that I left [[Moscow]]. I spent my best years in [[Moscow]], I love the place very much, but to have to live there now would only cause me agony and depression. Only in the countryside or abroad, where no one knows me, can I be calm. Indeed, I would not be able to live in [[Moscow]] as I did before, and given the new circumstances, that city is quite unbearable for me. There is only one thing I miss here, and that is music. If from time to time it were possible to hear good music in this place, then I could spend whole months here without feeling bored. In fact, it is precisely for the sake of music that within two weeks or so I shall be leaving ~~here—but~~ I don't know where I shall go, so for the time being write to me while I'm still here. Write to me, even if only briefly, about what you are doing, as well as about "[[Onegin]]". The address is: ''[[Florence]], Viale dei Colli, Restaurant Bonciani''. Give my very warm regards to all our friends, to your wife and children. As for you, I hug you both tightly and affectionately.		I am living in absolute solitude. I see no one apart from my [[Alyosha]]. My small flat is out of town, in a wonderful area from which one can look down on the city itself and the environs, and which has a garden with roses and flourishing green grass. Today, however, the weather is so repulsive, with rain and snow, that I think enviously of a fine winter's day in [[Moscow]]. I am writing a ''[[Suite No. 1\|suite]]'' for orchestra and I am working on this quite assiduously <ref name="note3"/>. Sometimes I walk into the wonderful and nice city and look in at the picture galleries. To be honest, although sometimes, when I think about you and other friends, I feel sad, still I am ''completely happy'', I enjoy my solitude and do not regret at all, not for one moment, that I left [[Moscow]]. I spent my best years in [[Moscow]], I love the place very much, but to have to live there now would only cause me agony and depression. Only in the countryside or abroad, where no one knows me, can I be calm. Indeed, I would not be able to live in [[Moscow]] as I did before, and given the new circumstances, that city is quite unbearable for me. There is only one thing I miss here, and that is music. If from time to time it were possible to hear good music in this place, then I could spend whole months here without feeling bored. In fact, it is precisely for the sake of music that within two weeks or so I shall be leaving here — but I don't know where I shall go, so for the time being write to me while I'm still here. Write to me, even if only briefly, about what you are doing, as well as about "[[Onegin]]". The address is: ''[[Florence]], Viale dei Colli, Restaurant Bonciani''. Give my very warm regards to all our friends, to your wife and children. As for you, I hug you both tightly and affectionately.
	{{right\|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
	If you manage to sell any of my things, give the money to Nikolay Lvovich <ref name="note4"/> so that he can pass it on to ''Shenshin'' <ref name="note5"/>, my creditor.		If you manage to sell any of my things, give the money to Nikolay Lvovich <ref name="note4"/> so that he can pass it on to ''Shenshin'' <ref name="note5"/>, my creditor.
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	<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky's slip of the pen for 11 December {{NS}}.</ref>		<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky's slip of the pen for 11 December {{NS}}.</ref>
	<ref name="note2">At the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, whose staff Tchaikovsky had left for good in early/mid October 1878, rehearsals were going on for a student performance of the first four scenes of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''.</ref>		<ref name="note2">At the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, whose staff Tchaikovsky had left for good in early/mid-October 1878, rehearsals were going on for a student performance of the first four scenes of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">During his stay in [[Florence]] Tchaikovsky worked on the orchestration of the last two movements of his [[Suite No. 1]].</ref>		<ref name="note3">During his stay in [[Florence]], Tchaikovsky worked on the orchestration of the last two movements of his [[Suite No. 1]].</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Nikolay Lvovich Bochechkarov (d. 1879), an eccentric old man whom Tchaikovsky provided with financial support during his years in [[Moscow]]. After his decision to leave [[Moscow]] for good in early/mid October 1878 some of the furniture and belongings in Tchaikovsky's flat had to be disposed of, and it seems that [[Albrecht]] had offered to help with this. For more information on Bochechkarov's role in Tchaikovsky's life, see {{bib\|1991/72\| Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1991), and {{bib\|2009/16\|Пётр Чайковский: Биография}} (2009).</ref>		<ref name="note4">Nikolay Lvovich Bochechkarov (d. 1879), an eccentric old man whom Tchaikovsky provided with financial support during his years in [[Moscow]]. After his decision to leave [[Moscow]] for good in early/mid-October 1878, some of the furniture and belongings in Tchaikovsky's flat had to be disposed of, and it seems that [[Albrecht]] had offered to help with this. For more information on Bochechkarov's role in Tchaikovsky's life, see {{bib\|1991/72\| Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man}} (1991), and {{bib\|2009/16\|Пётр Чайковский: Биография}} (2009).</ref>
	<ref name="note5">Dmitry Semyonovich Shenshin (1828-1897), retired major-general and Tchaikovsky's creditor in [[Moscow]].</ref>		<ref name="note5">Dmitry Semyonovich Shenshin (1828-1897), retired major-general and Tchaikovsky's creditor in [[Moscow]].</ref>
	</references>		</references>
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