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* '''[[Letter 4257]]''' – 17/29 November 1890, from [[Saint Petersburg]] | * '''[[Letter 4257]]''' – 17/29 November 1890, from [[Saint Petersburg]] | ||
3 letters from Khristoforov to the composer, dating from 1889 to 1890, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 4568–4570). | |||
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Russian cellist and civil servant (b. 1836; d. 1891), born as Nikolay Osipovich Khristoforov (Николай Осипович Христофоров).
Khristoforov was a cellist in the Imperial Opera Orchestras in Saint Petersburg from 1856 until 1860, rising to become director of the central music library of the Imperial Theatres from 1877.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
8 letters from Tchaikovsky to Nikolay Khristoforov have survived, dating from 1887 to 1890, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 3435b – 15/27 December 1887, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 3882 – 18/30 June 1889, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4064 – 7/19 March 1890, from Florence
- Letter 4121 – 24 May/5 June 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4136 – 4/16 June 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4174 – 14/26 July 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4191 – 4/16 August 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4257 – 17/29 November 1890, from Saint Petersburg
3 letters from Khristoforov to the composer, dating from 1889 to 1890, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 4568–4570).
