Letter 313

Date	by 25 May/5 June 1873
Addressed to	Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written	Moscow
Language	Russian
Autograph Location	Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a³, No. 2139)
Publication	П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 323

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)

English translation
By Brett Langston

Милый Петруша! Посылаю тебе корректуру танцев и заглавный лист для «Снегурочки». К сожалению, он слишком велик, — но не может ли твой гравёр сделать его в соответственную величину. Твой П. Чайковский		Dear Petrusha! I'm sending you the proofs of the dances and title page for "The Snow Maiden" ^[1]. Unfortunately it's far too big, but perhaps your engraver can scale it appropriately. Yours P. Tchaikovsky

↑ The Dance of the Tumblers (Act III, No. 13) from Tchaikovsky's music for Ostrovsky's play The Snow Maiden, was published by Jurgenson in May 1873 [O.S.]. This letter is dated on the assumption that Tchaikovsky completed this task before he left Moscow on 25 May/6 June that year.