Letter 4358
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 25 March/6 April 1891 [1] |
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Addressed to | Eduard Nápravník |
Where written | Paris |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 3368) [2] |
Publication | Переписка Е. Ф. Направника с П. И. Чайковским (1959), p. 178 ("6 April") П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-А (1976), p. 79 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Luis Sundkvist |
Париж 6 апр[еля] Дорогой Эдуард Францевич!
Рекомендую тебе подательницу сего письма А. М. Маркову. Она желает посвятить себя артистической карьере. Не откажи ей в своём покровительстве и внимании. Обнимаю тебя! П. Чайковский |
Paris 6 April Dear Eduard Frantsevich!
I recommend to you the bearer of this letter, A. M. Markova [3]. She wishes to dedicate herself to an artistic career. Do not refuse her your patronage and attention. I embrace you! P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ On the autograph letter the year "91" is written in pencil by an unidentified hand.
- ↑ Acquired by the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve in 2015. See Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 22 (2015), p. 171.
- ↑ Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Markova (1865–1924), a operatic soprano who went on to become an artist at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1892 to 1912.