Letter 5034

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 18/30 September 1893
Addressed to Sergey Taneyev
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (ф. 880)
Publication Письма П. И. Чайковского и С. И. Танеева (1874-1893) [1916], p. 188
П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма (1951), p. 198
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 183

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Милый друг Сергей Иванович!

Вечером приеду к тебе с величайшим удовольствием. Может быть, приведу и Модеста с племянником Давыдовым.

П. Чайк[овский]

Dear friend Sergey Ivanovich

I will come to you tonight with the greatest pleasure [1]. I might bring Modest and my nephew Davydov.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky was responding to an invitation from Sergey Taneyev to hear two new compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff.