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"Imperial" / "mid-October" for consistency

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	\|Translated text={{centre\|Most respected [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]]!}}		\|Translated text={{centre\|Most respected [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]]!}}
	With all my heart I welcome the celebration in honour of [[I. V. Samarin]] <ref name="note1"/>, and my wish to take part in it to the best of my abilities is all the stronger, given that this request is being addressed to me by you <ref name="note2"/>, and I consider it impossible to refuse you anything. Unfortunately, I am now engrossed in the production of my opera <ref name="note3"/> and am quite incapable of doing any work <ref name="note4"/>. Shortly after the first performance of the opera I shall head for [[Moscow]] <ref name="note5"/>, and only there will it be possible for me to do anything, if only I have enough time to meet the deadline. What a pity that I was not warned earlier that I might be needed! In any case I ''positively promise'' to undertake something <ref name="note6"/>, and if the jubilee celebration does not take place until the last ten days of November <ref name="note7"/>, then I hope to be able to make it in time. Believe me, much esteemed [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]], that it will be extremely agreeable for me to render you a service, even in this indirect fashion		With all my heart I welcome the celebration in honour of [[I. V. Samarin]] <ref name="note1"/>, and my wish to take part in it to the best of my abilities is all the stronger, given that this request is being addressed to me by you <ref name="note2"/>, and I consider it impossible to refuse you anything. Unfortunately, I am now engrossed in the production of my opera <ref name="note3"/> and am quite incapable of doing any work <ref name="note4"/>. Shortly after the first performance of the opera, I shall head for [[Moscow]] <ref name="note5"/>, and only there will it be possible for me to do anything, if only I have enough time to meet the deadline. What a pity that I was not warned earlier that I might be needed! In any case, I ''positively promise'' to undertake something <ref name="note6"/>, and if the jubilee celebration does not take place until the last ten days of November <ref name="note7"/>, then I hope to be able to make it in time. Believe me, much esteemed [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]], that it will be extremely agreeable for me to render you a service, even in this indirect fashion

	Please accept this assurance of my ever so profound respect for you.		Please accept this assurance of my ever so profound respect for you.
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	<ref name="note1">The year 1884 was the fiftieth anniversary of the actor [[Ivan Samarin]]'s stage début, and his friends and colleagues in [[Moscow]] were organizing a celebration in his honour. Tchaikovsky's own friendship with [[Samarin]] went back as far as 1866, when he had arrived in [[Moscow]] to take up employment as a teacher of musical theory — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in ''{{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}}'' (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note1">The year 1884 was the fiftieth anniversary of the actor [[Ivan Samarin]]'s stage début, and his friends and colleagues in [[Moscow]] were organizing a celebration in his honour. Tchaikovsky's own friendship with [[Samarin]] went back as far as 1866, when he had arrived in [[Moscow]] to take up employment as a teacher of musical theory — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in ''{{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}}'' (1937), p. 168.</ref>
	<ref name="note2">[[Ostrovsky]]'s letter to Tchaikovsky inviting him to contribute to the forthcoming celebrations in honour of [[Samarin]] has not survived in the composer's archive at the [[Klin]] House-Museum — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note2">[[Ostrovsky]]'s letter to Tchaikovsky inviting him to contribute to the forthcoming celebrations in honour of [[Samarin]] has not survived in the composer's archive at the [[Klin]] House-Museum — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky's opera ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' was to be performed for the first time at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Mariinsky Theatre in a production which opened on 19/31 October 1884 (five and a half years after its premiere in [[Moscow]]). Tchaikovsky had arrived in the ~~imperial~~ capital in early/mid October to supervise the rehearsals at the Mariinsky Theatre.</ref>		<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky's opera [[Yevgeny Onegin]] was to be performed for the first time at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Mariinsky Theatre in a production which opened on 19/31 October 1884 (five and a half years after its premiere in [[Moscow]]). Tchaikovsky had arrived in the Imperial capital in early/mid-October to supervise the rehearsals at the Mariinsky Theatre.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">The composer's letters to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 12/24 October 1884 ([[Letter 2568]]) and to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] on 22 October/3 November 1884 ([[Letter 2574]]) show how busy, exhausted, and agitated Tchaikovsky felt during this period. On the opening night of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' he even had "a terrible nervous fit" inside the theatre, as he confessed to his benefactress in that letter — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note4">The composer's letters to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 12/24 October 1884 ([[Letter 2568]]) and to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] on 22 October/3 November 1884 ([[Letter 2574]]) show how busy, exhausted, and agitated Tchaikovsky felt during this period. On the opening night of [[Yevgeny Onegin]], he even had "a terrible nervous fit" inside the theatre, as he confessed to his benefactress in that letter — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
	<ref name="note5">Tchaikovsky did not in fact go to [[Moscow]] after the first performance of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' at the Mariinsky Theatre, because while still in [[Saint Petersburg]] he received news about the worsening state of the violinist [[Iosif Kotek]], who was ill with tuberculosis and had been interned in a sanatorium at [[Davos]], in Switzerland. On 1/13 November 1884 Tchaikovsky set off from [[Saint Petersburg]] to make his way to [[Davos]] and visit his friend — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note5">Tchaikovsky did not in fact go to [[Moscow]] after the first performance of [[Yevgeny Onegin]] at the Mariinsky Theatre, because while still in [[Saint Petersburg]] he received news about the worsening state of the violinist [[Iosif Kotek]], who was ill with tuberculosis and had been interned in a sanatorium at [[Davos]], in Switzerland. On 1/13 November 1884, Tchaikovsky set off from [[Saint Petersburg]] to make his way to [[Davos]] and visit his friend — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
	<ref name="note6">On his way to Switzerland Tchaikovsky stopped over at [[Berlin]] for four days because he wanted to compose a chorus there, as well as "an entr'acte for the [[Samarin]] jubilee", as he wrote to Modest on 7/19 November 1884, adding: "The latter has been done and dispatched" ([[Letter 2586]]). When [[Jurgenson]], in 1890, came to publish this entr'acte (written for string orchestra) Tchaikovsky decided to rename it ''[[Elegy]]'' in [[Samarin]]'s memory. The initial title, as indicated on the autograph score, was "''Hommage'' [in French]. ''A Grateful Greeting (to [[I. V. Samarin]])''". The date of completion indicated at the end of the score reads: "[[Berlin]], 6 November 1884" {{OS}} — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note6">On his way to Switzerland, Tchaikovsky stopped over at [[Berlin]] for four days because he wanted to compose a chorus there, as well as "an entr'acte for the [[Samarin]] jubilee", as he wrote to Modest on 7/19 November 1884, adding: "The latter has been done and dispatched" ([[Letter 2586]]). When [[Jurgenson]], in 1890, came to publish this entr'acte (written for string orchestra) Tchaikovsky decided to rename it ''[[Elegy]]'' in [[Samarin]]'s memory. The initial title, as indicated on the autograph score, was "''Hommage'' [in French]. ''A Grateful Greeting (to [[I. V. Samarin]])''". The date of completion indicated at the end of the score reads: "[[Berlin]], 6 November 1884" {{OS}} — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
	<ref name="note7">The celebrations to mark [[Samarin]]'s jubilee took place in [[Moscow]] on 16/28 December 1884. Apart from Tchaikovsky's ''A Grateful Greeting'' (now referred to as ''[[Elegy]]'') another musical work performed at the festivities was [[Anton Arensky]]'s ''Hymn to Art'' for a soloist, chorus, and orchestra, which was a setting of some verses by [[Ostrovsky]] — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>		<ref name="note7">The celebrations to mark [[Samarin]]'s jubilee took place in [[Moscow]] on 16/28 December 1884. Apart from Tchaikovsky's ''A Grateful Greeting'' (now referred to as ''[[Elegy]]''), another musical work performed at the festivities was [[Anton Arensky]]'s ''Hymn to Art'' for a soloist, chorus and orchestra, which was a setting of some verses by [[Ostrovsky]] — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib\|1937/43\|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
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{{letterhead
|Date=18/30 October 1884
|To=[[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Moscow]]: {{RUS-Mt}} (Ostrovsky collection)
|Publication={{bibx|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 167<br/>{{bib|1970/86|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XII}} (1970), p. 463
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{centre|Многоуважаемый Александр Николаевич!}}
От всей души сочувствую празднеству в честь И. В. Самарина и тем более желал бы по мере сил принять в нём участие, что обращение ко мне исходит от Вас, а отказать Вам в чём-либо я считаю невозможным. К сожалению я поглощён теперь постановкой моей оперы и работать решительно не способен. Вскоре после первого представления оперы я отправлюсь в Москву и там только буду иметь возможность что-либо сделать, если только поспею к сроку. Как жаль, что раньше я не был предупреждён, что могу понадобиться! Во всяком случае ''положительно обещаюсь'' что-нибудь предпринять и, если юбилей состоится не ранее 20-х чисел ноября, надеюсь поспеть во время. Верьте, многоуважаемый Александр Николаевич, что для меня будет в высшей степени приятно услужить Вам хотя косвенным образом

Примите уверение в глубочайшем уважении к Вам.
{{right|П. Чайковский}}
18 окт[ября] 1884 г[ода]

|Translated text={{centre|Most respected [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]]!}}
With all my heart I welcome the celebration in honour of [[I. V. Samarin]] <ref name="note1"/>, and my wish to take part in it to the best of my abilities is all the stronger, given that this request is being addressed to me by you <ref name="note2"/>, and I consider it impossible to refuse you anything. Unfortunately, I am now engrossed in the production of my opera <ref name="note3"/> and am quite incapable of doing any work <ref name="note4"/>. Shortly after the first performance of the opera I shall head for [[Moscow]] <ref name="note5"/>, and only there will it be possible for me to do anything, if only I have enough time to meet the deadline. What a pity that I was not warned earlier that I might be needed! In any case I ''positively promise'' to undertake something <ref name="note6"/>, and if the jubilee celebration does not take place until the last ten days of November <ref name="note7"/>, then I hope to be able to make it in time. Believe me, much esteemed [[Aleksandr Nikolayevich]], that it will be extremely agreeable for me to render you a service, even in this indirect fashion

Please accept this assurance of my ever so profound respect for you.
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
18 October 1884
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The year 1884 was the fiftieth anniversary of the actor [[Ivan Samarin]]'s stage début, and his friends and colleagues in [[Moscow]] were organizing a celebration in his honour. Tchaikovsky's own friendship with [[Samarin]] went back as far as 1866, when he had arrived in [[Moscow]] to take up employment as a teacher of musical theory — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in ''{{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}}'' (1937), p. 168.</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Ostrovsky]]'s letter to Tchaikovsky inviting him to contribute to the forthcoming celebrations in honour of [[Samarin]] has not survived in the composer's archive at the [[Klin]] House-Museum — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky's opera ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' was to be performed for the first time at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Mariinsky Theatre in a production which opened on 19/31 October 1884 (five and a half years after its premiere in [[Moscow]]). Tchaikovsky had arrived in the imperial capital in early/mid October to supervise the rehearsals at the Mariinsky Theatre.</ref>
<ref name="note4">The composer's letters to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 12/24 October 1884 ([[Letter 2568]]) and to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] on 22 October/3 November 1884 ([[Letter 2574]]) show how busy, exhausted, and agitated Tchaikovsky felt during this period. On the opening night of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' he even had "a terrible nervous fit" inside the theatre, as he confessed to his benefactress in that letter — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
<ref name="note5">Tchaikovsky did not in fact go to [[Moscow]] after the first performance of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' at the Mariinsky Theatre, because while still in [[Saint Petersburg]] he received news about the worsening state of the violinist [[Iosif Kotek]], who was ill with tuberculosis and had been interned in a sanatorium at [[Davos]], in Switzerland. On 1/13 November 1884 Tchaikovsky set off from [[Saint Petersburg]] to make his way to [[Davos]] and visit his friend — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
<ref name="note6">On his way to Switzerland Tchaikovsky stopped over at [[Berlin]] for four days because he wanted to compose a chorus there, as well as "an entr'acte for the [[Samarin]] jubilee", as he wrote to Modest on 7/19 November 1884, adding: "The latter has been done and dispatched" ([[Letter 2586]]). When [[Jurgenson]], in 1890, came to publish this entr'acte (written for string orchestra) Tchaikovsky decided to rename it ''[[Elegy]]'' in [[Samarin]]'s memory. The initial title, as indicated on the autograph score, was "''Hommage'' [in French]. ''A Grateful Greeting (to [[I. V. Samarin]])''". The date of completion indicated at the end of the score reads: "[[Berlin]], 6 November 1884" {{OS}} — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
<ref name="note7">The celebrations to mark [[Samarin]]'s jubilee took place in [[Moscow]] on 16/28 December 1884. Apart from Tchaikovsky's ''A Grateful Greeting'' (now referred to as ''[[Elegy]]'') another musical work performed at the festivities was [[Anton Arensky]]'s ''Hymn to Art'' for a soloist, chorus, and orchestra, which was a setting of some verses by [[Ostrovsky]] — note by [[Sergey Popov]] in {{bib|1937/43|А. Н. Островский и русские композиторы. Письма}} (1937), p. 168.</ref>
</references>