Vasily Sidorov

Russian poet and autograph collector (b. around 1834; d. 1903), born Vasily Mikhaylovich Sidorov (Василий Михайлович Сидоров), also known by the pseudonym Otradin (Отрадин).

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One (draft) letter from Tchaikovsky to Vasily Sidorov has survived, dating from 1887, and has been translated into English on this website:

• Letter 3195 – 10/22 March 1887, from Saint Petersburg.

2 letters from Vasily Sidorov to the composer, dating from 1887, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a⁴, Nos. 4012–4013).