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|Date=11/23 June 1891<br />
|To=[[Anna Merkling]]<br />
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}}<br />
|Publication={{bib|1951/49|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 245–246<br/>{{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 136–137<br />
|Notes=Manuscript copy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (signature omitted)<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
Based on a handwritten copy in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive, omitting the signature, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|11 июня 1891 г[ода]}}<br />
Голубушка Аня! Я только что вернулся из Москвы, где застрял на целую неделю. Этим объясняется, что на письмо твоё, ожидавшее меня здесь, так долго не было ответу. Насчёт ''Штрандмана'' я решил, что решение этого вопроса нужно отложить до осени. Торопиться нечего. До тех пор можно кое-что и другое, быть может, лучшее найти. Пишу тебе так мало, ибо не знаю, застанет ли тебя эта записочка. Аня, моск[овская] Франц[узская] выставка ''прелесть, и ты непременно должна её видеть''. Я имел против неё предубеждение и теперь мечтаю опять съездить в Москву и побывать на неё.<br />
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Целую твой ручки, голубушка! Спасибо за хлопоты.<br />
{{right|Твой,}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|11 June 1891}}<br />
Golubushka [[Anya]]! I've only just returned from [[Moscow]], where I was stuck for a whole week. This explains why I have taken so long to reply to your letter, which was waiting for me here <ref name="note1"/>. Regarding ''Strandmann'', I decided that this question must be deferred until the autumn <ref name="note2"/>.. There's no hurry. In the meantime something better might turn up. I'm only writing a little because I don't know whether this note will reach you. [[Anya]], the [[Moscow]] French exhibition is ''delightful, and you certainly ought to see it''. I had been set against it, and now I'm dreaming about going back to [[Moscow]] and seeing it again <ref name="note3"/>..<br />
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I kiss your hands, golubushka! Thank you for your troubles.<br />
{{right|Yours, }}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">This letter from [[Anna Merkling]] has not survived.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">When Tchaikovsky returned from his tour of America, he moved to a rented house at [[Maydanovo]] (near [[Klin]]), where he had previously resided between February 1885 and April 1888. Believing this to be unavailable or unsuitable during the winter months, the composer had sought alternative accommodation, and had expressed interest in a nearby dacha owned by a certain "Strandmann".</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">The ''Exposition française'' was held in [[Moscow]] between 1/15 May and 15/27 October 1891.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett