Letter 1166

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 28 April/10 May 1879 [1]
Addressed to Anatoly Tchaikovsky
Where written Kamenka
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 1232)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VIII (1963), p. 189

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Сейчас получил твоё письмо. Напиши гадиной что на развод я вполне согласен, и пусть она пришлёт к тебе поверенного. Я принимаю на себя издержки по разводу; денег же дать не могу, ибо их не имею.
Твой, П. Чайковский

Целую, писать некогда.

I have just received your letter [2]. Write to the viper [3] that I am fully agreeable to divorce, and let her direct you to an attorney. I shall bear the costs of the divorce myself; I cannot offer any money, because I have none.
Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

I kiss you, write at once.

Notes and References

  1. Dated by reference to Letter 1167 to Nadezhda von Meck, written the same day.
  2. Letter from Anatoly Tchaikovsky dated 25 April/7 May 1879.
  3. The composer's estranged wife, Antonina Tchaikovskaya.