Letter 2406

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 3/15 January 1884
Addressed to Karl Albrecht
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (Ф. 37, No. 48)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XII (1970), p. 292

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
3 янв[аря]

Карлуша! Ларош со вчерашнего вечера нездоров, и я сам уговорил его не являться сегодня в Консерваторию. Пишу, чтобы ты знал, что не лень, а действительное нездоровье мешают ему быть в Консерв[атории]. Обнимаю.

П. Чайковский

3 January

Karlusha! Laroche has been unwell since yesterday evening, and I myself dissuaded him from presenting himself at the Conservatory today. I'm writing to let you know that this is not indolence, but rather actual ill health preventing him from being at the Conservatory [1]. I hug you.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Herman Laroche taught the history and theory of music at the Moscow Conservatory from 1883 to 1886.