Letter 329

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Date October or November 1873
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2175)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 336

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Мне ужасно совестно, но я тебя должен просить прислать мне целых пятьдесят рублей. Цена моих пиэс 100 р[ублей]. Я взял у тебя 35 и теперь 50 — итого 85. За тобой останется 15.
П. Чайковский

I'm awfully embarrassed, but I have to ask you to send me a round fifty rubles. The price of my pieces [1] is 100 rubles. I've already taken 35 from you, and 50 now — making 85. This leaves you with 15.
P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. The Six Pieces, Op. 19, for piano.