Letter 2632
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 31 December 1884/12 January 1885 |
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Addressed to | Pyotr Jurgenson |
Where written | Moscow |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2479) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XII (1970), p. 518 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
Душа моя! Пришли мне «три Екатерины».
Твой П. Чайковский |
My dear chap! Send me "three Catherines" [1].
Yours P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ The 100 ruble note bore the portrait of the Empress Catherine the Great, so Tchaikovsky was asking for three of these, i.e. 300 rubles.