Letter 4538

Tchaikovsky Research
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Date 8/20 November 1891
Addressed to Yelena Samoylova
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Cleveland (Ohio, USA): Private collection
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-А (1976), p. 261

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
8 ноября 1891

Милостивая государыня!

Я очень сожалею, что нездоровье заставило меня просидеть весь вчерашний день дома и лишило возможности послушать Вас. Надеюсь, что это мне удастся в другой раз.

С истинным почтением,

П. Чайковский

8 November 1891

Gracious Madam!

I am very sorry that ill health compelled me to spend all yesterday sitting at home, and deprived me of the opportunity to listen to you [1]. I hope to manage this on another occasion.

With sincere respect,

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from Yelena Samoylova dated 5/17 November 1891, in which she invited him to her debut performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, in Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots, on 7/19 November.