Letter 4266

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Date 4/16 December 1890
Addressed to Yelizaveta Tchaikovskaya
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Saint Petersburg (Russia): National Library of Russia (ф. 834, ед. хр. 30, л. 16, 18, 20)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 300

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
4 дек[абря]

Голубушка Лили! Посылаю Вам карточку, по которой Вы получите 2 кресла в магазине Юргенсона. Простите, что беспокою, — но мне необходимо было раздачу билетов поручить Юргенсону.

У Николая Ильича, где я, кажется, обещался завтракать, быть не могу. Целую ручки.

Ваш П. Ч

Простите ради Бога, что такие дальние кресла посылаю.

4 December

Golubushka Lili! I'm sending you a card, for which you will receive 2 seats at Jurgenson's store. I'm sorry that this is troublesome — but it was necessary for me to entrust the allocation of tickets to Jurgenson.

I cannot be at Nikolay Ilyich's, where, apparently, I promised to have lunch. I kiss your hands.

Yours P. T.

For God's sake forgive me for sending you seats so far away [1].

Notes and References

  1. The composer is referring to seats at the premiere of his opera The Queen of Spades at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 7/19 December 1890.