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|Translated text=Golubchik, kindly see to it that all the music referred to in the enclosed list is sent to my sister [[Aleksandra Davydova|Aleksandra Ilyinichna Davydova]]'s address at [[Kamenka]] (''[[Kiev]] province, Cherkassy district, Smela township, thence to [[Kamenka]]''). Put all the music on my account, and I will be most obliged for a small concession.  
|Translated text=Golubchik, kindly see to it that all the music referred to in the enclosed list is sent to my sister [[Aleksandra Davydova|Aleksandra Ilyinichna Davydova]]'s address at [[Kamenka]] (''[[Kiev]] province, Cherkassy district, township of Smela, thence to [[Kamenka]]''). Put all the music on my account, and I will be most obliged for a small concession.  


I'm sending everything I forgot yesterday.
I'm sending everything I forgot yesterday.

Latest revision as of 15:50, 30 March 2024

Date 20 September/2 October 1878
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2225)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 403–404

Text and Translation

Russian text
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English translation
By Brett Langston
Потрудись, голубчик, приказать все указанные в сем списке ноты отправить на имя моей сестры Алекс[андры] Ильин[ичны] Давыдовой в Каменку (Киевской губ[ернии], Черкасского уезда в мест[ечко] Смелу, оттуда в Каменку). К нотам сим приложи счёт, причём буду крайне обязан за маленькую уступочку.

Посылаю все то, что вчера забыл.

Твой, П. Чайковский

Golubchik, kindly see to it that all the music referred to in the enclosed list is sent to my sister Aleksandra Ilyinichna Davydova's address at Kamenka (Kiev province, Cherkassy district, township of Smela, thence to Kamenka). Put all the music on my account, and I will be most obliged for a small concession.

I'm sending everything I forgot yesterday.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky