Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson
Russian pianist and teacher (b. 1856; d. 27 December 1930 in Tomsk), born Aleksandra Yakovlevna Levenson (Александра Яковлевна Левенсон); known after marriage as Anna Yakovlevna Aleksandrova-Levenson (Анна Яковлевна Александрова-Левенсон).
Anna graduated in 1878 from the Moscow Conservatory, where she was a student in Tchaikovsky's harmony and instrumentation classes, and studied piano under Karl Klindworth. She taught in educational institutions in Moscow, but remained in contact with Tchaikovsky, who recommended her as a music teacher to his friend Nikolay Kondratyev on his estate at Nizy. Anna married Nikolay Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov (1858–1936), a chemistry teacher at the German School in Moscow, who was later appointed a professor of pharmacology at Tomsk University. Their son Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888–1982) later became a famous composer and edited Tchaikovsky's string quartets in volume 31 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works (1955).
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
33 letters from Tchaikovsky to Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson have survived, dating from 1877 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website.
- Letter 582 – 13/25 July 1877, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 1640 – 9/21 December 1880, from Moscow
- Letter 1728 – 15/27 April 1881, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 1783 – 13/25 June 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 1827 – 6/18 August 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 1851 – 3/15 September 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 1948 – 28 January/9 February 1882, from Rome
- Letter 1968 – 14/26 February 1882, from Naples
- Letter 2045 – 18/30 June 1882, from Grankino
- Letter 2072 – 29 July/10 August 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2092 – 1/13 September 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2159 – 13/25 November 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2231 – 1/13 March 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2296 – 31 May/12 June 1883, from Podushkino
- Letter 2319 – 1/13 August 1883, from Podushkino
- Letter 2371 – 19/31 October 1883, from Kamenka
- Letter 2470 – 21 April/3 May 1884, from Kamenka
- Letter 2782 – 6/18 October 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2811 – 19 November/1 December 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2856 – 15/27 January 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2857 – 16/28 January 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2976 – 18/30 June 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3036a – 3/15 September 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3279a – June 1887, from Borzhom
- Letter 3299 – 26 July/7 August 1887, from Aachen
- Letter 3628 – 30 July/11 August 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3885 – 26 June/8 July 1889, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3952 – 6/18 October 1889, from Moscow
- Letter 3964 – 27 October/8 November 1889, from Moscow
- Letter 3989 – 22 December 1889/3 January 1890, from Moscow
- Letter 4134 – 4/16 June 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4397a – early/mid-June 1891 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 4894 – 19/31 March 1893, from Moscow.
55 letters from Anna Aleksandrova-Levenson to the composer, dating from 1880 to 1893, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 2046–2100).
