Leopoldine Lafite
Tchaikovsky Research
Tutor (b. 1830; d. 1929), known in Russia as Leopoldina Karlovna Lafit (Леопольдина Карловна Лафит).
Leopoldine Lafite was tutor to the Litke family (the composer's cousins), and later to Tatyana Tchaikovskaya (daughter of the composer's brother Anatoly and his wife Praskovya). She is buried in the Demyanovo Cemetery at Klin.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
2 letters from Tchaikovsky to Leopoldine Lafite have survived, dating from 1891 to 1892, both of which have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 4520 – 23 October/4 November 1891, from Moscow
- Letter 4650 – 27 March/8 April 1892, from Maydanovo
