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|Date=between 20 October/1 November and 27 October/8 November 1889<br />
|To=[[Vasily Safonov]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 346)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 202<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text=Был у ''Капниста''. Он принял меня (как представителя Консерв[атории]) необычайно любезно и выразил крайнее удовольствие узнать, что мы интересуемся студенческой музыкой. Он сам собирался повидать меня или тебя, чтобы попробовать завербовать одного из наших, ввиду вероятного не приезда Макса и болезни Фитценхагена. Почему-то из двух предложенных мной заместителей Макса, он безусловно, на стороне ''Зилоти''. Трудно было понять почему, — вероятно, ''Зилоти'' ему лично симпатичен. Дня через два, повидавшись с двумя распорядителями, он обещал побывать у меня и поговорить окончательно.<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text=I've been to see ''Kapnist'' <ref name="note1"/>. He treated me (as a representative of the Conservatory) exceptionally kindly and expressed great delight on learning of our interest in student music. He himself has been meaning to see you or me, in order to attempt to recruit one of us, considering that [[Max]]'s was unlikely to turn up, and [[Fitzenhagen]] was ill. As for my two suggestions to replace [[Max]], for some reason he categorically preferred ''[[Ziloti]]''. It is difficult to understand why — probably because he is more personally sympathetic to ''[[Ziloti]]''. After consulting with two of his managers, he promised to see me in two days' time to conclude the discussions <ref name="note2"/>.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Count Pavel Alekseyevich Kapnist (1842-1904), administrator at [[Moscow]] University, whose orchestra had been left without a conductor following the departure from Russia of [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">The conductor Nikolay Semyonovich Klenovsky (1857-1915) was eventually appointed as [[Erdmannsdörfer]]'s successor in this role.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett