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	'''''Vanka the Steward''''' (Ванька-ключник) <ref name="note1"/> was the subject of a projected opera ([[TH]] 218 ; [[ČW]] 458), which Tchaikovsky considered during the last three months of 1881.		'''''Vanka the Steward''''' (Ванька-ключник) <ref name="note1"/> was the subject of a projected opera ([[TH]] 218 ; [[ČW]] 458), which Tchaikovsky considered during the last three months of 1881.

	On 30 October/11 November 1881, while visiting [[Kiev]], Tchaikovsky attended a performance of ''Vanka the Steward'', Luka Antropov's stage version of [[Dmitry Averkiyev]]'s tale ''Drunken Night'' (Хмелевая ночь). The following day the composer told [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] that he was considering [[Averkiyev]]'s story as the basis for his next opera, and asked him to try to find a printed copy of it in [[Moscow]], adding: "I can't decide whether to make this into an opera, or to write ''[[Mazepa]]''. The subject of ''Vanka the Steward'' is very appealing to me" <ref name="note2"/>.		On 30 October/11 November 1881, while visiting [[Kiev]], Tchaikovsky attended a performance of ''Vanka the Steward'', Luka Antropov's stage version of [[Dmitry Averkiyev]]'s tale ''Drunken Night'' (Хмелевая ночь). The following day, the composer told [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] that he was considering [[Averkiyev]]'s story as the basis for his next opera, and asked him to try to find a printed copy of it in [[Moscow]], adding: "I can't decide whether to make this into an opera, or to write ''[[Mazepa]]''. The subject of ''Vanka the Steward'' is very appealing to me" <ref name="note2"/>.

	After having read the play, Tchaikovsky wrote again to his publisher on 16/28 November, asking him to try to contact [[Averkiyev]] to see if he would be willing to write a libretto for the opera <ref name="note3"/>. "Today I received a reply from [[Averkiyev]]", [[Jurgenson]] reported back on 3/15 December. "He will gladly take care of the libretto... He wanted to have your address, but because I did not have it, I told him to write to you in [[Rome]] ''poste restante''" <ref name="note4"/>. However, by 4/16 January 1882, Tchaikovsky had still not received the libretto. "There has been nothing whatever for me ''poste restante''", he told [[Jurgenson]], "And to tell the truth, I'm glad about this because I'm not disposed at the moment to think seriously about opera" <ref name="note5"/>. Tchaikovsky soon resumed work on ''[[Mazepa]]'', and nothing more was heard about ''Vanka the Steward'' <ref name="note6"/>.		After having read the play, Tchaikovsky wrote again to his publisher on 16/28 November, asking him to try to contact [[Averkiyev]] to see if he would be willing to write a libretto for the opera <ref name="note3"/>. "Today I received a reply from [[Averkiyev]]", [[Jurgenson]] reported back on 3/15 December. "He will gladly take care of the libretto... He wanted to have your address, but because I did not have it, I told him to write to you in [[Rome]] ''poste restante''" <ref name="note4"/>. However, by 4/16 January 1882, Tchaikovsky had still not received the libretto. "There has been nothing whatever for me ''poste restante''", he told [[Jurgenson]], "And to tell the truth, I'm glad about this because I'm not disposed at the moment to think seriously about opera" <ref name="note5"/>. Tchaikovsky soon resumed work on ''[[Mazepa]]'', and nothing more was heard about ''Vanka the Steward'' <ref name="note6"/>.

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'''''Vanka the Steward''''' (Ванька-ключник) <ref name="note1"/> was the subject of a projected opera ([[TH]] 218 ; [[ČW]] 458), which Tchaikovsky considered during the last three months of 1881.

On 30 October/11 November 1881, while visiting [[Kiev]], Tchaikovsky attended a performance of ''Vanka the Steward'', Luka Antropov's stage version of [[Dmitry Averkiyev]]'s tale ''Drunken Night'' (Хмелевая ночь). The following day the composer told [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] that he was considering [[Averkiyev]]'s story as the basis for his next opera, and asked him to try to find a printed copy of it in [[Moscow]], adding: "I can't decide whether to make this into an opera, or to write ''[[Mazepa]]''. The subject of ''Vanka the Steward'' is very appealing to me" <ref name="note2"/>.

After having read the play, Tchaikovsky wrote again to his publisher on 16/28 November, asking him to try to contact [[Averkiyev]] to see if he would be willing to write a libretto for the opera <ref name="note3"/>. "Today I received a reply from [[Averkiyev]]", [[Jurgenson]] reported back on 3/15 December. "He will gladly take care of the libretto... He wanted to have your address, but because I did not have it, I told him to write to you in [[Rome]] ''poste restante''" <ref name="note4"/>. However, by 4/16 January 1882, Tchaikovsky had still not received the libretto. "There has been nothing whatever for me ''poste restante''", he told [[Jurgenson]], "And to tell the truth, I'm glad about this because I'm not disposed at the moment to think seriously about opera" <ref name="note5"/>. Tchaikovsky soon resumed work on ''[[Mazepa]]'', and nothing more was heard about ''Vanka the Steward'' <ref name="note6"/>.

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Entitled "Vanka the Housekeeper" in [[ČW]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Letter 1882]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 10/22 August 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 1894]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 16/28 November 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Letter from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to Tchaikovsky, 3/15 December 1881 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
<ref name="note5">[[Letter 1926]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 4/16 January 1882.</ref>
<ref name="note6">From {{bib|2002/22|The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1}} (2002), p. 404.</ref>
</references>
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