Letter 3000

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Date 11/23 July 1886
Addressed to Karl Albrecht
Where written Maydanovo
Language Russian
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (Ф. 37, No. 57)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XIII (1971), p. 397

Text and Translation

Russian text
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English translation
By Brett Langston
11-го июля [18]86 г[ода]

Кашкин и Юргенсон собираются ко мне в понедельник. Я непременно жду также и тебя. Страшно буду обижен, если ты не приедешь, ибо именно вследствие нашего с тобой уговора я и задумал маленький праздник совокупного гуляния и обеденного ансамбля четырёх старых друзей.

Обнимаю тебя, Карлуша, и жду непременно.

Твой П. Чайковский

11th July 1886

Kashkin and Jurgenson are coming to me on Monday. I'm certainly expecting you too. I will be terribly offended if you don't come, because it's precisely as a result of our discussion that I conceived this little celebratory gathering and dinner between an ensemble of four old friends.

I hug you, Karlusha, and expect you without fail.

Yours P. Tchaikovsky