Letter 307

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 16/28 May 1873
Addressed to Karl Albrecht
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (ф. 37, No. 11)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 319

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Карл Карлович! Будь так добр, позволь Заку (с разрешения Николая Григорьевича) присутствовать на сегодняшнем спектакле. Весьма тебе буду обязан.
П. Чайковский

Karl Karlovich! Be so kind as to allow Sack (with Nikolay Grigoryevich's permission) to attend today's performance [1]. I'll be very much obliged to you.
P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. A student production at the Moscow Conservatory of the play La Ciguë (1844) by the French dramatist Émile Augier (1820-1889).