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| | Russian writer, dramatist and translator (b. 1826; d. 1892), born '''''Konstantin Avgustovich Tarnovsky''''' (Константин Августович Тарновский); also known by the pseudonyms '''''Semyon Raysky''''' (Семен Райский) and''''' Yevstrafy Berendeyev''''' (Евстафий Берендеев). |
| |Date=8/20 July 1891
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| |To=[[Vladimir Davydov]]
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| |Place=[[Maydanovo]]
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| |Language=Russian
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| |Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 128)
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| |Publication={{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 173–174
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| ==Text and Translation==
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| |Language=Russian
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| |Translator=Brett Langston
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| |Original text={{right|''8 июля''}}
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| Вчера вернулся из Петербурга, где провёл целую неделю. Здесь меня ожидало ''27 писем'', из коих некоторые деловые. На все это я уже 2-ой день строчу ответы. Устал ужасно и совершенно неспособен беседовать с тобой по душе. А между тем кое-что в твоих письмах вызывает во мне стремление к такого рода беседе. Напишу в другой раз. А покамест скажу только, что я сам не ожидал, какую радость мне доставят твои письма. Подобно юноше, получившему письмо от своей возлюбленной, я даже нещадно исцеловал следы твоей паршивой, омерзительной руки.
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| Милый, чудный, я тебя обожаю.
| | Tarnovsky graduated from [[Moscow]] University, and became secretary to the board of the [[Moscow]] Imperial Theatres, and later inspector of repertory. Tarnovsky wrote and adapted up to 150 plays under his own name and the pseudonyms Raysky and Berendeyev. From 1855, he was assistant director of repertory and secretary to the director of the Imperial Theatres in [[Moscow]], He met Tchaikovsky in the mid–1860s through their mutual friend [[Nikolay Rubinstein]]. |
| {{right|П. Чайковский}}
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| В Питере ежедневно почти бывал в Зоологическом и вообще вёл себя как кутящий купчик, получивший наследство. Саня Литке услаждал меня своим милым сообществом. Он у меня тоже страшно в последнее время повысился. Теперь он уже ''свитский'' генерал. Недалеко и до генерал-адъютантства.
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| |Translated text={{right|''8 July''}}
| | Tarnovsky wrote several songs and vaudevilles, and numerous review articles in the Russian, French and German press. |
| Yesterday I returned from [[Petersburg]] where I spent the whole week. Waiting for me here were ''27 letters'', some of which were business matters. I'm already into my second day scribbling replies to them all. I'm awfully tired and completely incapable of saying anything from the heart, and yet something in your letters makes me want to have a conversation of that sort. I will write another time. And meanwhile I can only say that I didn't expect the delivery of your letters to bring me such joy. Like a young man receiving a letter from his beloved, I even shamelessly kissed the traces of your wretched, abominable hands.
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| My dear wonderful fellow, I adore you!
| | [[Category:People|Tarnovsky, Konstantin]] |
| {{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
| | [[Category:Writers|Tarnovsky, Konstantin]] |
| In [[Piter]] we visited the Zoo almost every day, and generally behaved like a drunken merchant in receipt of an inheritance. [[Sanya Litke]] indulged me with his sweet companionship. He's also become awfully grown up lately. Now he's the ''general'' of the suite <ref name="note1"/>. Indeed, not far off adjutant general.
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky's younger relatives and their friends in [[Saint Petersburg]] were jokingly referred to by the composer as his "suite".</ref>
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Russian writer, dramatist and translator (b. 1826; d. 1892), born Konstantin Avgustovich Tarnovsky (Константин Августович Тарновский); also known by the pseudonyms Semyon Raysky (Семен Райский) and Yevstrafy Berendeyev (Евстафий Берендеев).
Tarnovsky graduated from Moscow University, and became secretary to the board of the Moscow Imperial Theatres, and later inspector of repertory. Tarnovsky wrote and adapted up to 150 plays under his own name and the pseudonyms Raysky and Berendeyev. From 1855, he was assistant director of repertory and secretary to the director of the Imperial Theatres in Moscow, He met Tchaikovsky in the mid–1860s through their mutual friend Nikolay Rubinstein.
Tarnovsky wrote several songs and vaudevilles, and numerous review articles in the Russian, French and German press.
