Vadim Peresleni
Nephew of the composer's brother-in-law, Lev Davydov (b. 1867; d. 1919?), born Vadim Vladimirovich Peresleni (Вадим Владимирович Переслени).
Vadim was the younger son of Vladimir Peresleni and his wife Yekaterina (b. Davydova), and the nephew of the composer's brother-in-law, Lev Davydov. He left university without completing his degree and worked in various departments of the civil service. In the last years of his life he taught French at a secondary school in Tver [1].
Tchaikovsky often visited the Peresleni family when he lived in Moscow during the 1870s, and remained friendly with them throughout his life. The names of Vadim and his brother Nikolay (nicknamed "Kokodes") appear frequently in Tchaikovsky's correspondence with his brothers Modest and Anatoly, as well as in the diary he kept during his stay in Tiflis in April 1886. Judging from some critical remarks made by Tchaikovsky, Vadim seems to have been a rather dissolute young man [2].
Correspondence with Vadim Peresleni
11 letters from Tchaikovsky to Vadim Peresleni have survived, dating from 1885 to 1893, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 2825 – 4/16 December 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2999b – 10/22 July 1886 (?), from Maydanovo
- Letter 3014 – 25 July/6 August 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3071 – 8/20 October 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3557a –27 April/9 May 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3567a –12/24 May 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3596 – 17/29 June 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4501 – 7/19 October 1891, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4628 – 25 February/8 March 1892, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4629 – 27 February/10 March 1892, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4913b –12/24 April 1893, from Klin
18 letters from Vadim Peresleni to the composer, dating from 1881 to 1893, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 3294–3310 and 3312).
Bibliography
- Čajkovskij und die Familie Peresleni (2004)
- Vier unbekannte Briefe Čajkovskijs an Vadim Peresleni (2012)
Notes and References
- ↑ See the note by Vasily Kiselev in Переписка Чайковского. П. И. Чайковский и С. В. Флеров (1940), p. 461.
- ↑ See Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man (1993), p. 472, and Пётр Чайковский. Биография, том II (2009), p. 259.
