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	\|Language=French		\|Language=French
	\|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 39–40)		\|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 39–40)
	\|Publication={{bib\|1940/210\|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 30–31 <br/>{{bib\|1959/50\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 34.		\|Publication={{bib\|1940/210\|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 30–31 <br/>{{bib\|1959/50\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 34
	\|Notes=		\|Notes=
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	Friday the 29th is my name-day. It will be the first time that I shall spend this day without you. However, I shall rejoice in recollecting how merrily I spent that day last year, and in awaiting September, when I shall get to see and embrace my two angels <ref name="note2"/>.		Friday the 29th is my name-day. It will be the first time that I shall spend this day without you. However, I shall rejoice in recollecting how merrily I spent that day last year, and in awaiting September, when I shall get to see and embrace my two angels <ref name="note2"/>.

	Kiss for me the hands of my dear [[Aunt Liza]], [[Zina]], Sestritsa <ref name="note3"/>, and Lidiya <ref name="note4"/>, and all my little angels whom I do not expect to see again so soon.		Kiss for me the hands of my dear [[Aunt Liza]], [[Zina]], Sestritsa <ref name="note3"/> and Lidiya <ref name="note4"/>, and all my little angels whom I do not expect to see again so soon.

	Goodbye, my comforting angels. I ask for your blessing. Your son,		Goodbye, my comforting angels. I ask for your blessing. Your son,
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	<ref name="note1">Young Pyotr was spending the summer holidays on a country estate at [[Nadino]], not far from [[Saint Petersburg]] which belonged to the mother of Mariya Petrovna Vakar (née Markova), the wife of his guardian Platon Alekseyevich Vakar (1826-1899).</ref>		<ref name="note1">Young Pyotr was spending the summer holidays on a country estate at [[Nadino]], not far from [[Saint Petersburg]] which belonged to the mother of Mariya Petrovna Vakar (née Markova), the wife of his guardian Platon Alekseyevich Vakar (1826-1899).</ref>
	<ref name="note2">In letters to his parents throughout his first year in the School of Jurisprudence's preparatory class (September 1850-May 1851) Pyotr had been imploring them to come and visit him in [[Saint Petersburg]]. For a while he had even hoped that his whole family would come to the ~~imperial~~ capital that summer to stay there for good. Ultimately, in 1851 it was only [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]] who was able to make the long journey from [[Alapayevsk]] to visit his two sons, Pyotr and [[Nikolay]] (for three weeks in September). However, in May 1852 the Tchaikovskys would finally make the move to [[Saint Petersburg]], and the family was reunited again.</ref>		<ref name="note2">In letters to his parents throughout his first year in the School of Jurisprudence's preparatory class (September 1850-May 1851), Pyotr had been imploring them to come and visit him in [[Saint Petersburg]]. For a while he had even hoped that his whole family would come to the Imperial capital that summer to stay there for good. Ultimately, in 1851, it was only [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]] who was able to make the long journey from [[Alapayevsk]] to visit his two sons, Pyotr and [[Nikolay]] (for three weeks in September). However, in May 1852 the Tchaikovskys would finally make the move to [[Saint Petersburg]], and the family was reunited again.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's much older cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>		<ref name="note3">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's much older cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>
	<ref name="note4">The composer's cousin Lidiya Vladimirovna Tchaikovskaya (married name Olkhovskaya; 1836-1892) was the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s elder brother, [[Vladimir Tchaikovsky\|Vladimir]]. She lost her mother when she was quite little, in 1842, and was effectively adopted by [[Ilya]] and his wife [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya\|Aleksandra]].</ref>		<ref name="note4">The composer's cousin Lidiya Vladimirovna Tchaikovskaya (married name Olkhovskaya; 1836-1892) was the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s elder brother, [[Vladimir Tchaikovsky\|Vladimir]]. She lost her mother when she was quite little, in 1842, and was effectively adopted by [[Ilya]] and his wife [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya\|Aleksandra]].</ref>
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{{letterhead
|Date=25 June/7 July 1851
|To=[[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya]] and [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]
|Place=Nadino
|Language=French
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 39–40)
|Publication={{bib|1940/210|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 30–31 <br/>{{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 34.
|Notes=
}}
==Text and Translation==
Spelling and punctuation errors in the original text have not been indicated.
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{centre|Mes trés chers Papa et Maman!}}
Avant hier M[onsieur] Platon était venu ici à la campagne. Et aujourd'hui il part. Vous vous fachez pourquoi je vous écris si rarement, mais je ne suis pas en ville mes deux anges et je ne puis pas vous écrire si souvent. Mais si vous saviez ma position? Voila déja la quatrième semaine que je suis à la campagne et je n'ai pas reçu de vos nouvelles; mais dans la dernière lettre vous m'avez écrit que Maman et Modya sont malades c'est ce qui me dérange beaucoup. Et c'est pourquoi je prie Dieu pour qu'il vous donne de la santé.

Vendredi le 29 serra mon jour de nom. Ce sera la 1-ère fois que je passerai se jour sans vous. Mais je me réjouirez en me rappellant comme j'ai passé gaiement ce jour l'année passée, et en attendant le moix de Septembre dans le quel je verrais et j'embrasserai mes deux anges.

Baisez pour mois la main de ma chère tante Lyse, Зина, Сестрица, et Lydie, et tous mes petits anges dont je n'éspére pas revoir bien tôt.

Adieu mes anges consolateurs. Je prie votre bénédiction. Votre fils,
{{right|Pierre}}
le 25 Juin l'an 1851. Lundi

|Translated text={{centre|My very dear [[Papa]] and [[Mama]]!}}
The day before yesterday, Mr Platon arrived here in the countryside <ref name="note1"/>. And today he is leaving. You are angry with me for writing to you so infrequently, but I am not in town, my two angels, and I cannot write to you so often. If you knew about my situation, though. For this is already the fourth week that I am in the country and I haven't had any news from you; in your last letter, though, you wrote that [[Mama]] and [[Modya]] are ill, and this is upsetting me very much. That is why I am praying to God that He may give you health.

Friday the 29th is my name-day. It will be the first time that I shall spend this day without you. However, I shall rejoice in recollecting how merrily I spent that day last year, and in awaiting September, when I shall get to see and embrace my two angels <ref name="note2"/>.

Kiss for me the hands of my dear [[Aunt Liza]], [[Zina]], Sestritsa <ref name="note3"/>, and Lidiya <ref name="note4"/>, and all my little angels whom I do not expect to see again so soon.

Goodbye, my comforting angels. I ask for your blessing. Your son,
{{right|Pyotr}}
25th of June 1851. Monday.
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Young Pyotr was spending the summer holidays on a country estate at [[Nadino]], not far from [[Saint Petersburg]] which belonged to the mother of Mariya Petrovna Vakar (née Markova), the wife of his guardian Platon Alekseyevich Vakar (1826-1899).</ref>
<ref name="note2">In letters to his parents throughout his first year in the School of Jurisprudence's preparatory class (September 1850-May 1851) Pyotr had been imploring them to come and visit him in [[Saint Petersburg]]. For a while he had even hoped that his whole family would come to the imperial capital that summer to stay there for good. Ultimately, in 1851 it was only [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]] who was able to make the long journey from [[Alapayevsk]] to visit his two sons, Pyotr and [[Nikolay]] (for three weeks in September). However, in May 1852 the Tchaikovskys would finally make the move to [[Saint Petersburg]], and the family was reunited again.</ref>
<ref name="note3">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's much older cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>
<ref name="note4">The composer's cousin Lidiya Vladimirovna Tchaikovskaya (married name Olkhovskaya; 1836-1892) was the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s elder brother, [[Vladimir Tchaikovsky|Vladimir]]. She lost her mother when she was quite little, in 1842, and was effectively adopted by [[Ilya]] and his wife [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|Aleksandra]].</ref>
</references>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Letter 0029}}