Letter 4822

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Date 11/23 December 1892
Addressed to Aleksandr Glazunov
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 40)
Publication Советская музыка. 3-й сборник статей (1945), p. 64
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 203

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
11 дек[абря] [18]92

Милый Саша! Мне очень, очень грустно, что тебе опять хуже. Воспользуюсь отменой репетиции, чтобы написать ответы на целую кучу писем, а то я приходил в отчаяние, что не успею до отъезда этого сделать. Завтракать к вам не приду, но навещу тебя около 4 часов, дабы побеседовать и выпить 2 стакана чая. До свиданья!

Твой, П. Чайковский

11 December 1892

Dear Sasha! I'm very, very sorry that you are poorly again. I'm taking advantage of a cancelled rehearsal [1] in order to write replies to a whole heap of letters, which I despaired that I wouldn't have the time to do before my departure [2]. I won't come to lunch with you, but will visit you around 4 o'clock in order to talk and drink 2 cups of tea. Until we meet!

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. For the Russian Symphony Concert on 12/24 December 1892, which happened to include Glazunov's Third Symphony.
  2. Tchaikovsky left Saint Petersburg to travel to Germany on 12/24 December 1892.