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{{letterhead
|Date=8/20 August 1893
|To=[[Sophie Menter]]
|Place=[[Klin]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note0"/>
|Publication={{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 64 (incomplete; with English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 302 (incomplete; with Russian translation, p. 302-303)
|Notes=
}}

==Text and Translation==
Based upon the (possibly incomplete) transcription published in Stargardt's 1974 auction catalogue <ref name="note4"/>, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.

{{Lettertext
|Language=German
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{centre|Liebe Gnädigste!}}
Meine Concerte (dass heisst diejenige wo ich dirigiere) in Petersburg, mit Ihnen und Wassil, sind am 15 und 19 Januar 1894, Russischen Stils.

Ist Wassil noch in Itter? Sagen [Sie] ihm dass mit Ihnen und ihm gehe ich sehr gern überall wo Sie auch gehen! Bin zu müde wegen der ''Simphonie'', kann nicht mehr schreiben. Küsse Ihre Hand!
{{right|P. Tschaikowsky<br/>(Doctor)}}

|Translated text={{centre|My dear lady!}}
My concerts (that is, those in which I am conducting) in [[Petersburg]], with your participation and [[Vasily Sapelnikov|Vasily]]'s, are on 15 and 19 January 1894, Russian style <ref name="note1"/>.

Is [[Vasily Sapelnikov|Vasily]] still in [[Itter]]? Tell him that with you and with him I am very glad to go wherever you go too! I'm too tired because of the ''symphony'' <ref name="note2"/>, I can't write any more. I kiss your hand!
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky<br/>(Doctor) <ref name="note3"/>}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note0">The autograph was sold in 1974 by J. A. Stargardt, Marburg.</ref>
<ref name="note1">In an undated letter from early/mid August 1893, [[Sophie Menter]] told the composer which works she wanted to play under his direction at a forthcoming Russian Musical Society concert in [[Saint Petersburg]], scheduled for January 1894, but asked him to give her the exact dates in January so that she could fit her other engagements around those. She also added: "I've received an enquiry from Copenhagen asking whether it might not be possible for me or [[Sapelnikov]] to convince Tchaikovsky to go there together with us. I do not dare to extend to us this understandable wish of the Danes, since you already know how happy we would be to be there together with you.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The [[Symphony No. 6]] in B minor, ''Pathètique''.</ref>
<ref name="note3">As in the case of the 'English' [[Letter 5006a]] to Yekaterina Laroche of 11/23 August 1893, Tchaikovsky added beneath the signature of this letter to [[Sophie Menter]] the honorary title which he had recently been awarded at the University of [[Cambridge]]. Again, he did so for humorous effect, because in her letter to the composer of early/mid August 1893 [[Menter]] had teased him about it, warning him to be careful when walking across the drawbridge at her castle during his next visit to [[Itter]]: "After so many distinctions it is easy to lose one's sense of balance....".</ref>
<ref name="note4">J. A. Stargardt, ''Autographen aus allen Gebieten'' (Marburg, 1974), p. 149, item no. 555.</ref>
</references>

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