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{{letterhead
|Date=20 August/1 September 1893
|To=[[Aleksandr Ziloti]]
|Place=[[Klin]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Frankfurt am Main]] (Germany): {{D-F}}
|Publication={{bibx|1993/101|Neue Zeitschrift für Musik}} (1993), p. 47<br/>{{bib|1994/180|Bisher unbekannte Briefe und musikalische Arbeiten Čajkovskijs}} (1994), p. 15<br/>{{bibx|1995/75|Internationales Čajkovskij Symposium, Tübingen 1993. Bericht}} (1995), p. 38, 40
|Online=http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/nachmisc/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-281014
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|20-го августа}}
{{centre|Милый Саша!}}
Петербургский адрес '' 24 Фонтанка''. Гамбургский: ''Hofrath Pollini'', ''Hamburg''. Крепк[о] тебя обнимаю, но ничего не пишу, ибо во 1-ых безумно устал, во 2-х сейчас уезжаю и в 3-х из Петербурга буду тебе адрес телеграфировать.
{{right|Твой П. Чайковский}}
Симфонию кончил совсем.

|Translated text={{right|20th August}}
{{centre|Dear [[Sasha]]!}}
My address in [[Petersburg]] is '' 24, Fontanka'' <ref name="note1"/>. My [[Hamburg]] one is: ''Hofrath <ref name="note2"/> [[Pollini]]'', ''[[Hamburg]]'' <ref name="note3"/>. I hug you tightly, but I won't write anything, because, firstly, I am awfully tired, secondly, I'm just about to leave, and, thirdly, I'll telegraph my address to you from [[Petersburg]].
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
The symphony is completely finished <ref name="note4"/>.
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">24, Fontanka River Embankment was the address of [[Nikolay Konradi]] and [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s apartment. However, when Tchaikovsky arrived in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 21 August/2 September he could not actually stay there, because [[Modest]] and his former pupil had quarrelled. Instead, Tchaikovsky was put up by [[Herman Laroche]] in his apartment on 10 Admiralty Embankment. It seems, though, that letters addressed to Tchaikovsky at 24 Fontanka were still being forwarded to him, and that is why he gave [[Ziloti]] this provisional address.</ref>
<ref name="note2">"Hofrath" (German) = Court Councillor.</ref>
<ref name="note3">On 23 August/4 September 1893 Tchaikovsky would set off from [[Saint Petersburg]] to travel to [[Hamburg]]. He arrived in [[Hamburg]] on 25 August/6 September and two days later attended a performance of his opera ''[[Iolanta]]'' at the city's opera-house. During his brief stay in [[Hamburg]] he also held negotiations with the opera-house's director [[Bernhard Pollini]] regarding a future production of ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'' there.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky finished the full score of his [[Symphony No. 6]] in its entirety (including all the markings and tempi) on 19/31 August 1893, and on the evening of 20 August/1 September, after having written this letter to [[Ziloti]] and six other letters, he boarded the night-train from [[Klin]] to [[Saint Petersburg]], in order to deliver the score to the offices of the Russian Musical Society so that handwritten copies of the orchestral parts could be made. Tchaikovsky was due to conduct the premiere of his symphony on 16/28 October.</ref>
</references>

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