Letter 4004

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Date 14/26 January 1890
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, Nos. 2667 and 2856) [1]
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 18

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
14 янв[аря]

Пётр Иванович! Мне оказалось необходимо занять здесь ещё 200 у Ю. Цета. Пожалуйста, отдай их ему (Адрес: 40, у Полицейского моста, С[анкт] П[етер]б[ург]).

2) Пожалуйста, потрудись послать 25 р[ублей] сер[ебром] в Каменку (Фастовская линия, ст[анция] Каменка) Настасье Васильевне Поповой.

Не забудь Фролову дать работу, если случится.

14 January

Pyotr Ivanovich! It turned out I need to take another 200 rubles from Yu. Zet [2]. Please, send them to him (Address: 40, Police Bridge, Saint Petersburg).

2) Please kindly send 25 silver rubles to Kamenka (Fastov line, Kamenka station), to Nastasya Vasilyevna Popova [3].

Don't forget to give Frolov work, if it comes up [4].

Notes and References

  1. The second half of this letter appears separately in Автографы П. И. Чайковского в архиве дома-музея в Клину. Справочник, вып. 2 (1952), p. 313, with the date 24 January/5 February–25 January/6 February 1890, and consequently was also numbered as Letter 4012a in some earlier listings.
  2. Julius Zet (in Russia: Yuly Tset) was for many years secretary to the pianist Sophie Menter, and it was through her that he met Tchaikovsky. In 1888 he became the composer's representative in his negotiations with Western European concert agents. Tchaikovsky thought very highly of Zet's personal qualities, but the latter did not have a good eye for business and many of his ambitious enterprises fell through. He left Russia in 1891 and never went back again. See Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 3 (1997), p. 229, note 1.
  3. Anastasya Vasilyevna Popova (1807-1894) was one of Tchaikovsky's paternal first cousins.
  4. Vladimir Yakovlevich Frolov (d. 1895), Russian clarinettist and arranger, for whom Tchaikovsky was trying to find employment. See Letter 3977 to Frolov, 28 November/10 December 1889.