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	<ref name="note4">''The Comic Actor'' (Комик) was written in 1851 by Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881).</ref>		<ref name="note4">''The Comic Actor'' (Комик) was written in 1851 by Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881).</ref>
	<ref name="note5">Nikolay Tolstoy and Klavdy Insarsky were [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s friends at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.</ref>		<ref name="note5">Nikolay Tolstoy and Klavdy Insarsky were [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s friends at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
	<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's cousin, the youngest daughter of [[Yelizaveta ~~Shobert~~]], who was suffering from from tuberculosis. She died on 24 March/5 April 1866.</ref>		<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's cousin, the youngest daughter of [[Yelizaveta Schobert]], who was suffering from from tuberculosis. She died on 24 March/5 April 1866.</ref>
	<ref name="note7">No other letters from this date are known.</ref>		<ref name="note7">No other letters from this date are known.</ref>
	<ref name="note8">Tchaikovsky's translation of François Auguste Gevaert's ''[[Handbook for Instrumentation]]'', which would be published by [[Jurgenson]] later in 1866.</ref>		<ref name="note8">Tchaikovsky's translation of François Auguste Gevaert's ''[[Handbook for Instrumentation]]'', which would be published by [[Jurgenson]] later in 1866.</ref>
	</references>		</references>
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{{letterhead
|Date=16/28 January 1866
|To=[[Modest Tchaikovsky]]
|Place=[[Moscow]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 36, л. 1–2)
|Publication={{bib|1900/35|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 1}} (1900), p. 229 {{bib|1940/210|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 76–77 {{bib|1955/37|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к близким}} (1955), p. 24–25 (abridged) {{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 95–96 {{bib|1981/81| Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 23 (English translation; abridged)
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|''16 января'' 1866 г[ода] Москва}}
Модя! Благодарю тебя за письмо. Нового рассказать мне Вам решительно нечего; про ''курс'' мой напишу Вам только, когда он начнётся; покамест я только должен был делать экзамены желающим в оный поступить. В Русском театре был два раза и неимоверно наслаждался; это пока единственно приятные минуты, проведённые мною здесь. Опера отвратительная, концерт Музык[ального] общ[ества], бывший вчера, тоже был плох, словом, по части музыки куда хуже Петербурга. Раза два был в Артистическом кружке; слышал, как Островский читал там «''Пучину''», а Писемский «''Комика''». Большею же частью сижу дома. Ты мне пишешь про дружбу к Толстому и Инсарскому, а ничего не говоришь про ученье; пожалуйста, зубри, чтоб не оставаться в классе. Толе я писать не буду, покамест он мне не напишет. В следующем письме прошу мне отвечать по пунктам:
:1) Про Катю. Выздоравливает ли она? 2) Где были в субботу и воскресенье? 3) Про Давыдовых? 4) Про Училище.
Так как мне писать на сей раз решительно нечего, да притом я страшно устал (написал 5 писем), то я и прекращаю, посылая тебе всевозможные лобзания и Анатолию тоже.
{{right|П. Чайковский}}
Ради Бога напиши, отнесли ли вы в Консерваторию мой перевод.

|Translated text={{right|''16 January'' 1866 [[Moscow]].}}
[[Modya]]! Thank you for the letter <ref name="note1"/>. You had absolutely nothing new to tell me; I'll only write to you about my ''course'' once it's started; for now I just have to do examinations in order to enrol. I've been to the Russian theatre twice and enjoyed it enormously; these were just about the only pleasant moments I've spent here. The opera is abominable, the Musical Society concert I was at yesterday was also poor <ref name="note2"/>, and in summary, so far as music is concerned, things are even worse here than in [[Petersburg]]. I've been to the Artistic Circle twice, and heard [[Ostrovsky]] read from "''The Abyss''" <ref name="note3"/>, and Pisemsky's "''The Comic Actor''" <ref name="note4"/>. Most of the time I sit at home. You write to me about your friendship with Tolstoy and Insarsky <ref name="note5"/>, but say nothing about your studies; please don't stay an ox in the classroom. I won't be writing to [[Tolya]] for a while, as he hasn't written to me. Could I ask you to respond to the following points in your next letter:
:1) How is Katya <ref name="note6"/>. Has she recovered? 2) What happened on Saturday and Sunday? 3) How are the Davydovs? 4) How is School?
Since you've written about absolutely nothing this time, and moreover I'm terribly tired (I've written 5 letters) <ref name="note7"/>, then I shall end by sending you all manner of kisses, and [[Anatoly]] too.
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
For God's sake write and tell me if you took my translation to the Conservatory<ref name="note8"/>.
}}
==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">This letter from [[Modest Tchaikovsky]] has not survived.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The eighth Russian Musical Society symphony concert in [[Moscow]] on 15/27 January 1866 was conducted by [[Nikolay Rubinstein]], and featured the overture to Étienne-Nicolas Méhul's opera ''La chasse du jeune Henri''; an oratorio from [[Mendelssohn]]'s oratorio ''Elijah'', and romances by [[Glinka]] and [[Schubert]] (all sung by [[Aleksandra Aleksandrova-Kochetova]]); [[Handel]]'s Concerto Grosso in B-flat major; and [[Beethoven]]'s Eighth Symphony.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Aleksandr Ostrovsky]]'s play ''The Abyss'' was first published January 1866 in the ''Saint Petersburg Gazette'', and would be performed for the first time at the Maly Theatre in [[Moscow]] on 8/20 April 1866.</ref>
<ref name="note4">''The Comic Actor'' (Комик) was written in 1851 by Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881).</ref>
<ref name="note5">Nikolay Tolstoy and Klavdy Insarsky were [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s friends at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's cousin, the youngest daughter of [[Yelizaveta Shobert]], who was suffering from from tuberculosis. She died on 24 March/5 April 1866.</ref>
<ref name="note7">No other letters from this date are known.</ref>
<ref name="note8">Tchaikovsky's translation of François Auguste Gevaert's ''[[Handbook for Instrumentation]]'', which would be published by [[Jurgenson]] later in 1866.</ref>
</references>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Letter 0082}}

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	Ради Бога напиши, отнесли ли вы в Консерваторию мой перевод.		Ради Бога напиши, отнесли ли вы в Консерваторию мой перевод.

	\|Translated text={{right\|''16 January'' 1866<br/>[[Moscow]].}}		\|Translated text={{right\|''16 January'' 1866<br/>[[Moscow]]}}
	[[Modya]]! Thank you for the letter <ref name="note1"/>. You had absolutely nothing new to tell me; I'll only write to you about my ''course'' once it's started; for now I just have to do examinations in order to enrol. I've been to the Russian theatre twice and enjoyed it enormously; these were just about the only pleasant moments I've spent here. The opera is abominable, the Musical Society concert I was at yesterday was also poor <ref name="note2"/>, and in summary, so far as music is concerned, things are even worse here than in [[Petersburg]]. I've been to the Artistic Circle twice, and heard [[Ostrovsky]] read from "''The Abyss''" <ref name="note3"/>, and Pisemsky's "''The Comic Actor''" <ref name="note4"/>. Most of the time I sit at home. You write to me about your friendship with Tolstoy and Insarsky <ref name="note5"/>, but say nothing about your studies; please don't stay an ox in the classroom. I won't be writing to [[Tolya]] for a while, as he hasn't written to me. Could I ask you to respond to the following points in your next letter:		[[Modya]]! Thank you for the letter <ref name="note1"/>. You had absolutely nothing new to tell me; I'll only write to you about my ''course'' once it's started; for now I just have to do examinations in order to enrol. I've been to the Russian theatre twice and enjoyed it enormously; these were just about the only pleasant moments I've spent here. The opera is abominable, the Musical Society concert I was at yesterday was also poor <ref name="note2"/>, and in summary, so far as music is concerned, things are even worse here than in [[Petersburg]]. I've been to the Artistic Circle twice, and heard [[Ostrovsky]] read from "''The Abyss''" <ref name="note3"/>, and Pisemsky's "''The Comic Actor''" <ref name="note4"/>. Most of the time I sit at home. You write to me about your friendship with Tolstoy and Insarsky <ref name="note5"/>, but say nothing about your studies; please don't stay an ox in the classroom. I won't be writing to [[Tolya]] for a while, as he hasn't written to me. Could I ask you to respond to the following points in your next letter:
	:1) How is Katya <ref name="note6"/>. Has she recovered?<br/>2) What happened on Saturday and Sunday?<br/>3) How are the Davydovs?<br/>4) How is School?		:1) How is Katya <ref name="note6"/>. Has she recovered?<br/>2) What happened on Saturday and Sunday?<br/>3) How are the Davydovs?<br/>4) How is School?
	Since you've written about absolutely nothing this time, and moreover I'm terribly tired (I've written 5 letters) <ref name="note7"/>, then I shall end by sending you all manner of kisses, and [[Anatoly]] too.		Since you've written about absolutely nothing this time, and moreover I'm terribly tired (I've written 5 letters) <ref name="note7"/>, then I shall end by sending you all manner of kisses, and [[Anatoly]] too.
	{{right\|P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|P. Tchaikovsky}}
	For God's sake write and tell me if you took my translation to the Conservatory<ref name="note8"/>.		For God's sake, write and tell me if you took my translation to the Conservatory<ref name="note8"/>.
	}}		}}
	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==
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	<ref name="note4">''The Comic Actor'' (Комик) was written in 1851 by Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881).</ref>		<ref name="note4">''The Comic Actor'' (Комик) was written in 1851 by Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881).</ref>
	<ref name="note5">Nikolay Tolstoy and Klavdy Insarsky were [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s friends at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.</ref>		<ref name="note5">Nikolay Tolstoy and Klavdy Insarsky were [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s friends at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.</ref>
	<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's cousin, the youngest daughter of [[Yelizaveta Schobert]], who was suffering ~~from~~ from tuberculosis. She died on 24 March/5 April 1866.</ref>		<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's cousin, the youngest daughter of [[Yelizaveta Schobert]], who was suffering from tuberculosis. She died on 24 March/5 April 1866.</ref>
	<ref name="note7">No other letters from this date are known.</ref>		<ref name="note7">No other letters from this date are known.</ref>
	<ref name="note8">Tchaikovsky's translation of François Auguste Gevaert's ''[[Handbook for Instrumentation]]'', which would be published by [[Jurgenson]] later in 1866.</ref>		<ref name="note8">Tchaikovsky's translation of François Auguste Gevaert's ''[[Handbook for Instrumentation]]'', which would be published by [[Jurgenson]] later in 1866.</ref>
	</references>		</references>
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