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|Date=5/17 September 1888<br />
|To=[[Yuliya Shpazhinskaya]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 2109)<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1951/53|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 341<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 522<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''5-го сент[ября] [18]88''<br/>''с[ело] Фроловское''}}<br />
Дорогая Юлия Петровна! Только что вернулся из поездки в Киевскую губ[ернию] к сестре, откуда вывез очень тяжёлое впечатление. Там теперь огромное семейное несчастие, заставляющее меня много слез проливать. Думал найти здесь от Вас письмо и рукопись пиэсы, но ни того, ни другого нет. Как Ваше здоровье? Отчего так давно не пишете? Неужели Вы все ещё больны? Надеюсь, что вскоре Вы меня утешите хорошими о себе известиями. С завтрашнего дня принимаюсь снова за работу. Поклон матушке и детям.<br />
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Искренно преданный,<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''5th September 1888''<br/>''[[Frolovskoye]] village''}}<br />
Dear [[Yuliya Shpazhinskaya|Yuliya Petrovna]]. I've only just returned from a visit to my sister in [[Kiev]] province, which has left me very downcast. Our family is enduring enormous misfortune, which has caused me to shed many tears <ref name="note1"/>. I thought I would find a letter from you and the manuscript of the play, but there is neither one nor the other <ref name="note2"/>. How is your health? Why have no not written for so long? Could it be because you are still unwell? I hope that you will soon console me with good news about yourself. I am resuming work tomorrow. Regards to your mother and children.<br />
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Sincerely devoted,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">The composer's niece [[Vera Rimskaya-Korsakova]] was gravely ill with tuberculosis in [[Paris]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">[[Yuliya Shpazhinskaya]] had been working on her first stage play, ''The Serpent'' (Змеёныш), which she had promised to send to Tchaikovsky for him to review.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett