Letter 3379

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 9/21 October 1887
Addressed to Aleksey Sofronov
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Saint Petersburg (Russia): National Library of Russia (ф. 834, ед. хр. 27, л. 32)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XIV (1974), p. 238

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Приезжай хоть сейчас.

До свиданья!

Твой П. Чайковский

You might as well come at once [1].

Until we meet!

Yours P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky was replying to Aleksey Sofronov's letter dated 8/20 October 1887, in which he asked for permission to come to Saint Petersburg a few days before the premiere of the opera The Enchantress at the Mariinsky Theatre on 20 October/1 November.