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|Date=13/25 September 1887<br />
|To=[[Aleksandr Uspensky]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 414)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 215<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|13 сент[ября] [18]87 г[ода]<br/>Москва}}<br />
{{centre|Многоуважаемый Александр Михайлович!}}<br />
Убедительно прошу Вас принять подателя сего письма и, если возможно, исполнить его желание, состоящее в том, чтобы Вы учили его, но увы!!! не иначе как даром, ибо он очень беден. Голос у него, по-моему, замечательный! В ''Комиссаржевском'' он разочаровался (конечно, это между нами). А жаль его, оставить без руководства.<br />
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Что, можно, пожалуйста, сделайте!!!<br />
{{right|Ваш, П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|13 September 1887<br/>[[Moscow]]}}<br />
{{centre|Most respected [[Aleksandr Uspensky|Aleksandr Mikhaylovich]]!}}<br />
I earnestly request you to receive the bearer of this letter <ref name="note1"/> and, if possible, to fulfil his desire to become one of your pupils. Alas, only free of charge, because he is very poor!!! His voice, in my opinion, is remarkable! He was disappointed by ''[[Komissarzhevsky]]'' <ref name="note2"/> (of course, this is between us). It's a shame that he's been left without direction <ref name="note3"/>.<br />
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Please do whatever you can!!!<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">[[Vasily Ostrovsky|Vasily Aleksandrovich Ostrovsky]] (1866-1942), Russian baritone.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">[[Fyodor Komissarzhevsky|Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky]] (1832-1905), Russian operatic tenor and singing teacher.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky's diary entry for 13/25 September mentions that he met "the student [[Vasily Ostrovsky|Ostrovsky]]" — see {{bib|1923/23}} (1923), p. 179.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett