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		<title>Brett at 18:20, 10 March 2020</title>
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|Date=18/30 December 1892&lt;br /&gt;
|To=[[František Šubert]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Place=[[Basel]]&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Autograph=[[Prague]] (Czechia): Památník národního písemnictví, Literarní archív (Strahov)&lt;br /&gt;
|Publication={{bib|1952/46|Pražské návštěvy P. I. Čajkovského}} (1952), p. 165&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI-Б}} (1979), p. 210–211&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
==Text and Translation==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Lettertext&lt;br /&gt;
|Language=French&lt;br /&gt;
|Translator=Brett Langston&lt;br /&gt;
|Original text={{right|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bâsel&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;30 Déc[embre] [18]92&amp;#039;&amp;#039;}} &lt;br /&gt;
{{centre|Mon cher et très respecté Directeur!}}&lt;br /&gt;
Vous n&amp;#039;avez pas oublié, certainement, que lors de mon dernier séjour à Prague, il a été question entre nous de l&amp;#039;engagement du couple &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Figner&amp;#039;&amp;#039; pour une série de représentations au &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Divadlo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. J&amp;#039;en ai parlé à &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Figner&amp;#039;&amp;#039; qui m&amp;#039;a chargé de Vous dire, qu&amp;#039;il serait on ne peut plus content de paraître sur Votre scène pendant le Grand Carème, qui commence chez nous le 7/19 Février et dure 7 semaines. Maintenant pour la recette que Vous pouvez obtenir, en admettant que les prix sa femme, il dit {{sic|qu&amp;#039;auparavent|qu&amp;#039;auparavant}} il voudrait savoir quelle est la recette que Vous pouvez obtenir, en admettant que les prix soient un peu augmentés? C&amp;#039;est là dessus qu&amp;#039;il peut régler quel comme il pourra Vous demander, sans que sa demande Vous semblât exagérée. Veuillez donc, cher Monsieur et ami, écrire un mot de renseignement à ce sujet à &amp;#039;&amp;#039;M[onsieu]r Nicolas Figner, Théâtre Impérial Marie&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Je voudrais bien que cette affaire s&amp;#039;arrangent, car je ne doute pas que le public de Prague appréciera les grandes qualités de ces deux artistes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Je me repose à l&amp;#039;étranger des fatigues de la mise en scène de «&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Iolanthe&amp;#039;&amp;#039;». Cet opéra a obtenu un beau succès.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Mille souhaits&amp;#039;&amp;#039; pour l&amp;#039;année 1893!!! Salutations cordiales à &amp;#039;&amp;#039;tous&amp;#039;&amp;#039; nos amis communs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bien à Vous,&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Čajkovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
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|Translated text={{right|&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Basel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;30 December 1892&amp;#039;&amp;#039;}} &lt;br /&gt;
{{centre|My dear and most respected Director!}}&lt;br /&gt;
You will certainly not have forgotten that during my last visit to [[Prague]] &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;, we discussed between us the engagement of the couple &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Figner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note2&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; for a series of performances at the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Divadlo&amp;#039;&amp;#039; &amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note3&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;. I have spoken to &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Figner]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, who has instructed me to tell you that he could not be happier than to appear on your stage during Lent, which commences here from 7/19 February and lasts for 7 weeks. Regarding the amounts he receives for each performance along with his wife, he says that he would first like to know what revenue you are expecting, taking into account higher ticket prices? On this basis he will be able to calculate the amount he might request of you, so that it will not appear over-inflated. Therefore please, dear Sir and friend, write a word of information on this subject to &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Monsieur [[Nikolay Figner]], Mariinsky Imperial Theatre&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. I should very much like this matter to be settled, because I have no doubt that the [[Prague]] public will appreciate the great qualities of these two artists.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am resting abroad from the exhaustion of the staging of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Iolanta]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. This opera was received with great success.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;A thousand salutations&amp;#039;&amp;#039; for the year 1893!!! Cordial greetings to &amp;#039;&amp;#039;all&amp;#039;&amp;#039; our mutual friends.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yours ever,&lt;br /&gt;
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Notes and References==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Tchaikovsky had visited [[Prague]] between 27 September/9 October and 1/13 October 1892.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note2&amp;quot;&amp;gt;[[Nikolay Figner]] and his wife Medea, who were both operatic artists with the Imperial Theatres.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;note3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;The Czech national theatre, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Národní Divadlo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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