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Date 8/20 March 1893
Addressed to Stepan Smolensky
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 369)
Publication Советская музыка (1959), No. 12, p. 83
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 60

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Russian text
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English translation
By Brett Langston
8 марта 1893 г[ода]

Многоуважаемый Степан Васильевич!

Возвращаю при сем тетрадь контрапунктических работ А. Петрова, которые я просмотрел с великим удовольствием. Хвала и честь Вам и Василию Сергеевичу! Я вынес из вчерашнего посещения Вас самое отрадное впечатление!

До скорого свидания!

Искренно преданный и уважающий,

Вас, П. Чайковский

8 March 1893

Most respected Stepan Vasilyevich!

I am returning herewith the notebook containing the contrapuntal works by A. Petrov, which I have looked through with great pleasure. Praise and honour to you and Vasily Sergeyevich! Yesterday's visit to you left me with a most gratifying impression![1]

Until we see each other soon!

Sincerely devoted and respectful,

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. The previous day Tchaikovsky had visited the Synodal School where he listened to a concert by the school orchestra. These may have included a work by "A. Petrov", who seems to have been a student whose compositions were written in the notebook that Tchaikovsky took away to study. Nothing more is known about A. Petrov.