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|Date=late April/early May or early/mid May 1873  
|Date=late April/early May or early/mid-May 1873  
|To=[[Pyotr Jurgenson]]  
|To=[[Pyotr Jurgenson]]  
|Place=[[Moscow]]  
|Place=[[Moscow]]  

Latest revision as of 15:02, 24 February 2024

Date late April/early May or early/mid-May 1873
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2140)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 316 (abridged)
Неизвестный Чайковский (2009), p. 214

Text and Translation

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English translation
By Brett Langston
Юргенсон!

Посылаю тебе пролог «Снегурочки». В воскресенье окончу все остальное. А ты, если можешь, пришли мне 15 р[ублей] с[еребром], которые спасут и меня и моё семейство от неминуемой гибели, ибо ни хера нет в кармане.

П. Чайковский

I'm sending you the prologue of "The Snow Maiden". On Sunday I'll have finished all the rest. And could you send me 15 silver rubles, which will save me and my family from impending doom, because I've sod all in my pocket.

P. Tchaikovsky