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|Date=20 November/2 December 1891?<br />
|To=[[Bogomir Korsov]]<br />
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 245)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 281<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''20 Novembre [18]91''}}<br />
{{centre|Cher Богомир Богомирович!}}<br />
Je n'ai pas suivi votre conseil, ayant pour principe de ne pas me mêler dans les détails administratifs de la Direction. Et puis c'est donc certainement dans mon intérêt que Vous désiriez que j'exige les prix ordinaires. Or, dès qu'il s'agit de mon intérêt, — je suis muet. Mais je Vous suis très reconnaissant pour la bonne et amicale intention qui Vous a guidé dans ce cas. J'en conclus que la 5-me représentation n'a pas fait ''полного сбора''. Et bien, tant pis! Mais il n'y a rien à faire. Si l'opéra est destiné à disparaitre du répertoire, Vous aurez beau baisser les prix, inventer toute sorte de remèdes, — Vous n'y pourrez rien. Le malade mourra. Merci, merci, encore!<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''20 November 1891''}}<br />
{{centre|Dear [[Bogomir Korsov|Bogomir Bogomirovich]]!}}<br />
I have not followed your advice <ref name="note1"/>, since as a rule I do not interfere with the Directorate's administrative details. And then it is certainly in my interest that you wish me to follow due process. Yet so far as my own interests are concerned — I am remaining silent. But I am most thankful to you for the good and friendly intentions which guided you in this matter. I have concluded that the 5th performance did not ''pass muster'' <ref name="note2"/>. Ah well, too bad! But there is nothing to be done. If the opera is destined to disappear from the repertoire, one can reduce the prices, or devise all manner of solutions — but to no avail. The patient will die. Thank you, thank you again!<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from [[Bogomir Korsov]] dated 19 November/1 December 1891.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">The fifth performance of ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'' at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]] on 18/30 November 1891.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett