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Date 3/15 May 1890
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Frolovskoye
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2686)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном, том 2 (1952), p. 156–157
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 138–139

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Милый друг!

Я наврал в списке действующих лиц «Пиковой дамы», т. е. несколько лиц пропустил, а потому посылаю тебе другой список на отдельном листочке. Ты давно уже просил написать заглавный лист «Пиковой дамы». По-моему, вот как:

«Пиковой дамы»

Опера
в 3 действиях и 7 картинах.

(Сюжет заимствован из повести Пушкина)

Либретто М. Чайковского
Музыка П. Чайковск[ого]

Потрудись, пожалуйста, послать 50 р[ублей] по следующему адресу: г[ород] Бар, Подольской губ[ерния] Вонифатию Матвеевичу Сангурскому (это за картину, которую он написал по моему заказу).

Прости за беспокойства.

Твой, П. Чайковский

Dear friend!

I made a mistake in the list of characters in "The Queen of Spades", i.e. I omitted several persons, and therefore I'm sending you another list on a separate sheet [1]. Some time ago now you asked me about the title page for "The Queen of Spades". I think it should be thus:


An opera
in 3 acts and 7 scenes.

(Story adapted from Pushkin's novel)

Libretto by M. Tchaikovsky
Music by P. Tchaikovsky

Please kindly send 50 rubles to the following address: town of Bar, Podolsk province, to Vonifaty Matveyevich Sangursky [2] (this is for a picture, which I commissioned from him).

Sorry to trouble you.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. This list has not survived.
  2. Vonifaty (Boniface) or "Votya" Sangursky, a boy from Kamenka and Tchaikovsky's protegé. The composer took much interest in his education and sent him to study painting at the Art school in Moscow. Vonifaty later became a teacher of drawing. Some of his paintings are preserved in the Tchaikovsky House-Museum at Klin.