Letter 3995

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 2/14 January 1890
Addressed to Osip Jurgenson
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Saint Petersburg (Russia): National Library of Russia (ф. 834, ед. хр. 24)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 14

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Покорнейше прошу многоуважаемого Осипа Ивановича прислать мне 5 экземпляров моего балета.
П. Чайковский

I humbly request most respected Osip Ivanovich to send me 5 copies of my ballet [1].
P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky is referring to Aleksandr Ziloti's piano reduction of The Sleeping Beauty, which had just been published by Pyotr Jurgenson in Moscow prior to the ballet's premiere.