Letter 1113

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 18 February/2 March 1879 [1]
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Paris
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2235)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VIII (1963), p. 119

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Милый друг!

Будь так добр, потрудись послать Бочечкарову 25 рублей по следующему адресу: На Пречистенке, Еропкинский переулок, дом Мартыновой, кв[артиры] Федотова, на дворе, во флигеле.

Твой П. Чайковский

Dear friend!

Be so good as to kindly send Bochechkarov [2] 25 rubles at the following address: Prechistenka, Eropkinsky Lane, Martynova House, Fedotov's apartment, courtyard annex.

Yours P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Dated in connection with Letter 1114 to Pyotr Jurgenson, written later the same day.
  2. Nikolay Lvovich Bochechkarov (d. 1879), an eccentric old man whom Tchaikovsky supported financially during his Moscow years. For more information on his role in the composer's life, see: Tchaikovsky. The quest for the inner man (1991) and Пётр Чайковский. Биография, том I (2009).