Letter 888

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 3/15 August 1878
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Verbovka
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2209)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 358

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Вербовка
3 авг[уста]

Милый друг!

Я поручил Николаю Львовичу устраивать квартиру. Если ему нужны будут деньги, то он будет обращаться к тебе, и все, что ты ему выдашь, я тебе возвращу по приезде. Впрочем, это будут все маленькие суммы.

Твой, П. Чайковский

Пожалуйста, насчёт вальса-скерцо распорядись.

Verbovka
3 August

Dear friend!

I've instructed Nikolay Lvovich to organise an apartment [1]. If he should require money, then he will come to you, and you should give him everything he requests; I'll bring it to you on arrival. However, it should all be small amounts.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Please, heed my instructions concerning the waltz-scherzo [2]

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky's friend Nikolay Bochechkarov was arranging accommodation for the composer for his return to Moscow at the end of the summer.
  2. Tchaikovsky had instructed that corrections be made to the score of the Valse-Scherzo for violin and orchestra, Op. 34. See also Letter 885 to Pyotr Jurgenson, written around 2/14 August 1878.