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Date | 9/21 January 1883 |
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Addressed to | Pyotr Jurgenson |
Where written | Paris |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Saint Petersburg (Russia): National Library of Russia (ф. 834, ед. хр. 38) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XII (1970), p. 24 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
Париж 9 янв[аря] Милый друг!
Будь так добр, вложи в прилагаемое письмо пятьдесят рублей и отправь по адресу. У меня просит помощи моя первая учительница музыки, которой я очень, очень много обязан, и я решительно не могу отказать, — но и[наче] как через тебя неудобно это сделать. Твой, П. Чайковский Для адреса посылаю самое письмо её и прошу сохранить его. |
Paris 9 January Dear friend!
Be so good as to put fifty rubles into the enclosed letter and send it to the address. I have been asked for assistance by my first music teacher [1], to whom I am very, very much obliged, and I categorically cannot refuse — but it is inconvenient to do it otherwise than through you. Yours, P. Tchaikovsky I ask you to save the address from the letter I'm sending her. |
Notes and References
- ↑ Mariya Markovna Loginova (née Palchikova; 1823-1888), daughter of the composer Mark Palchikov, who was engaged as a piano teacher for young Pyotr in Votkinsk by his parents around 1845. By 1848, as Modest informs us in his biography of the composer, the eight-year-old Pyotr could already play the piano as well as she could. In 1883, Tchaikovsky unexpectedly received a letter from her asking for financial assistance. He granted her a pension and also corresponded regularly with her during the last three years of her life (none of these letters, however, has come to light) — see Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 1 (1997), p. 41. Modest's assertion that Mariya was a former serf has recently been disproven — see http://expositions.nlr.ru/eng/ex_manus/Chaikovsky/teacher_music.php .