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|Date=10/22 March 1893<br />
|To=[[Pavel Pchelnikov]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 328)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1981/80|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVII}} (1981), p. 62<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|10 марта [18]93 г[ода]}}<br />
{{centre|Дорогой Павел Михайлович!}}<br />
Ужасно сожалею, что не удалось лично обратиться к Вам с нижеследующей просьбой. На днях будет в числе других петь у Вас в театре на пробе г[оспо]жа ''Лауб''. Это дочь незабвенного, великого скрипача. Пела она один сезон у ''Прянишникова''; она ''очень'' музыкальна и ''очень'' не лишена голоса. Претензий никаких! Лишь бы её хоть на самое маленькое жалованье взяли! Ради Бога, голубчик, помогите: она с матерью страшно бедствует.<br />
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Искренно преданный,<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|10 March 1893}}<br />
{{centre|Dear [[Pavel Pchelnikov|Pavel Mikhaylovich]]!}}<br />
I am awfully sorry that I am unable to approach you personally with the following request <ref name="note1"/>. Among the singers in your forthcoming theatre trials will be a Miss ''Laub'' <ref name="note2"/>. She is the daughter of the unforgettable great violinist. She sang for one season with ''[[Pryanishnikov]]''; she is ''very'' musical and ''far'' from devoid of voice. She has no pretensions! Even if it were only for the smallest salary, could you not take her on? For God's sake, golubchik, please help: she and her mother are in terrible poverty. <br />
<br />
Sincerely devoted,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references>1<br />
<ref name="note1">On the same day (10/22 March 1893), Tchaikovsky was leaving [[Moscow]] for [[Kharkov]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Lyudmila Laub, daughter of Tchaikovsky's deceased friend [[Ferdinand Laub]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett