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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{letterhead <br />
|Date=3/15 July 1881 <br />
|To=[[Eduard Nápravník]] <br />
|Place=[[Kamenka]] <br />
|Language=Russian <br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication={{bib|1901/24|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 2}} (1901), p. 477–478 (abridged)<br/>{{bibx|1924/2|Чайковский. Воспоминания и письма}} (1924), p. 136–137<br/>{{bib|1959/20|Е. Ф. Направник. Автобиографические, творческие материалы, документы, письма}} (1959), p. 115–116<br/>{{bib|1966/44|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том X}} (1966), p. 160<br />
|Notes=Typed copy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist<br />
|Original text={{right|''Каменка''<br/>3-го июля 1881 г[ода]}}<br />
{{centre|Дорогой друг мой!}}<br />
Я получил сегодня милое, тёплое, ободряющее письмо Ваше и невыразимо Вам благодарен за Ваше дружеское участие ко мне. Вы совершенно правы, говоря, что если моё охлаждение к сочинительству временное, то это благодетельный для меня отдых. Буду надеяться, что охота писать вернётся и постараюсь в следующей опере своей воспользоваться всеми указаниями прежних опытов. А покамест я всё ещё ''отдыхаю'' и только понемногу занимаюсь изучением наших древних церковных песнопений и делаю попытки переложения их на четырёхголосный хор. Результатом этих занятий будет ''всенощное бдение'', в котором мне хотелось бы хоть немножко содействовать к отрезвлению нашей церковной музыки, искажённой бездарными и пошлыми изданиями Капеллы. На этом поприще русским музыкантам можно было бы многое сделать, если бы Капелла и г. Бахметьев не старались всячески мешать. <br />
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Эдуард Францевич! Неужели ''Кюстер'' и его ужасный ''Лукашевич'' останутся во главе театрального ведомства? Если да, то есть отчего придти в отчаяние. <br />
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Весьма вероятно, что в случае постановки моей оперы в Праге я туда отправлюсь, хотя заранее волнуюсь от мысли, что придётся быть на виду и высказать всю свою неспособность быть полезным при постановке.<br />
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Надеюсь, что Вы пользуетесь отдыхом от обычных трудов и пишете. От всей души желаю Вам успеха в работе и во всех делах Ваших! Будьте здоровы, милый друг мой! Горячо Вас любящий,<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Kamenka]]''<br/>3rd July 1881}}<br />
{{centre|My dear friend!}}<br />
Today I received your kind, warm, and encouraging letter, and I am ineffably grateful to you for your friendly concern for me. You are quite right when you say that if my apathy towards compositional work is a temporary one, then this will be a beneficial break for me. I shall keep on hoping that my desire to write music will return, and in my next opera <ref name="note2"/> I shall try to make use of all the points learnt from my previous attempts. But for the time being I am still ''resting'', and it is only little by little that I am occupying myself with the study of our ancient church hymns and am making attempts to transcribe them for four-part chorus. The result of these efforts will be an ''[[All-Night Vigil]]'', in which I should like to contribute, if but a little, towards the sobering up of our church music, which has been distorted by the untalented and banal editions of the [Imperial] Chapel. In this field there is a lot that could be achieved by Russian composers, if only the Chapel and Mr Bakhmetyev <ref name="note3"/> didn't try to meddle in every possible way. <br />
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[[Eduard Frantsevich]]! Is it really true that ''Kyuster'' <ref name="note4"/> and his awful ''Lukashevich'' <ref name="note5"/> are going to remain at the helm of the theatre administration? If so, then there is good reason to despair.<br />
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It is most likely that I shall head for [[Prague]] if my opera is staged there, although I am worried in advance by the thought that I shall have to be in the limelight and demonstrate my complete inability to be of any use to the production <ref name="note6"/>.<br />
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I hope that you are taking advantage of your break from your usual chores to compose. With all my heart I wish you success in your work and in all your undertakings! Keep well, my dear friend! Your ardently affectionate, <br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">The autograph was sold at auction on 20 November 2020 by Drouout, Paris [https://www.drouotonline.com/en/lots/13568697]. Until 2015 it had belonged to the {{F-Pmlm}} in the French capital.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky had recently begun work on his seventh opera, ''[[Mazepa]]''.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Nikolay Ivanovich Bakhmetyev (1807–1891), the director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, who in 1879 had (unsuccessfully) tried to prosecute Tchaikovsky's publisher, [[Jurgenson]], for publishing the [[Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom]] without his permission.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">Baron Karl Karlovich Kyuster (Kister; 1821–1893) was in charge of administering the Ministry of the Court's budget, and from 1875 to 1881 he was the head of the Directorate of Imperial Theatres.</ref><br />
<ref name="note5">Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lukashevich (1821–after 1894) was a member of the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres, and from 1879 to 1881 he was in charge of the repertory.</ref><br />
<ref name="note6">''[[The Maid of Orleans]]'' would in fact not be staged in [[Prague]] until the following summer, on 16/28 July 1882, with [[Adolf Čech]] conducting. Tchaikovsky did not travel to [[Prague]] on that occasion.</ref><br />
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