Photographs
All known photographs and portraits of Tchaikovsky made during his lifetime (and shortly after his death) are shown below in chronological order. Clicking on the thumbnails below will bring up larger versions with additional information concerning the date and place they were taken, and on others shown in the same picture.
The numbering is taken from the definitive collection in the 'Catalogue of Photographs' in volume 1 of The Tchaikovsky Handbook (2002), where more detail can be found concerning dates and photographers. Every effort has been made to provide good quality reproductions of the original photographs, but in a few instances the only available sources are blurred or poorly-lit.
1848
1859
1860
1863
1865
1866
1868
1869
1870
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1882
1884
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Sketch by Aleksandra Snegireva-Jurgenson
1891
1892
1893
Portrait by Nikolay Kuznetsov