Letter 3995

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 2/14 January 1890
Addressed to Osip Jurgenson
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Saint Petersburg (Russia): National Library of Russia (ф. 834, ед. хр. 24)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 14

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Покорнейше прошу многоуважаемого Осипа Ивановича прислать мне 5 экземпляров моего балета.
П. Чайковский

I humbly request most respected Osip Ivanovich to send me 5 copies of my ballet [1].
P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Tchaikovsky is referring to Aleksandr Ziloti's piano reduction of The Sleeping Beauty, which had just been published by Pyotr Jurgenson in Moscow prior to the ballet's premiere.