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	\|Translated text={{right\|[[Moscow]]<br/>4th May 1872}}		\|Translated text={{right\|[[Moscow]]<br/>4th May 1872}}
	{{centre\|Gracious Sir!}}		{{centre\|Gracious Sir!}}
	Tomorrow I am submitting the full score of my opera "''[[The Oprichnik]]''" to [[Petersburg]] <ref name="note1"/>. Permit me to ask you to look favourably upon this work, and to provide your utmost assistance in promoting it for performance.		Tomorrow I am submitting the full score of my opera "''[[The Oprichnik]]''" to [[Petersburg]] <ref name="note1"/>. Permit me to ask you to look favourably upon this work, and to provide your utmost assistance in promoting it for performance.

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	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==
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	<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky completed the full score of his third opera, ''[[The Oprichnik]]'', on 20 March/1 April 1872. His previous opera, ''[[Undina]]'' (1869), had been rejected for performance by the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>.		<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky completed the full score of his third opera, [[The Oprichnik]], on 20 March/1 April 1872. His previous opera, [[Undina]] (1869), had been rejected for performance by the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>.
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{{letterhead
|Date=4/16 May 1872
|To=[[Eduard Nápravník]]
|Place=[[Moscow]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPtm}} (Гик 17195/2)
|Publication={{bib|1900/35|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 1}} (1900), p. 377 <br/>{{bib|1924/3|Чайковский. Воспоминания и письма}} (1924), p. 105–106 <br/>{{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 276
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|Москва<br/> 4-го мая 1872 г[ода]}}
{{centre|Милостивый государь}}
Я отсылаю завтра в Петербург партитуру моей оперы «''Опричник''». Позвольте попросить Вас отнестись благосклонно к этому произведению и оказать Ваше могущественное содействие к принятию её для постановки.

Имею честь быть Вашим покорнейшим слугой.
{{right|П. Чайковский}}

|Translated text={{right|[[Moscow]]<br/>4th May 1872}}
{{centre|Gracious Sir!}}
Tomorrow I am submitting the full score of my opera "''[[The Oprichnik]]''" to [[Petersburg]] <ref name="note1"/>. Permit me to ask you to look favourably upon this work, and to provide your utmost assistance in promoting it for performance.

I have the honour to be your most humble servant.
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}
==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky completed the full score of his third opera, ''[[The Oprichnik]]'', on 20 March/1 April 1872. His previous opera, ''[[Undina]]'' (1869), had been rejected for performance by the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>.
</references>
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