Letter 4358

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 25 March/6 April 1891 [1]
Addressed to Eduard Nápravník
Where written Paris
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 3368) [2]
Publication Переписка Е. Ф. Направника с П. И. Чайковским (1959), p. 178 ("6 April")
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-А (1976), p. 79
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Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Luis Sundkvist
Париж
6 апр[еля]

Дорогой Эдуард Францевич!

Рекомендую тебе подательницу сего письма А. М. Маркову. Она желает посвятить себя артистической карьере. Не откажи ей в своём покровительстве и внимании.

Обнимаю тебя!

П. Чайковский

Paris
6 April

I recommend to you the bearer of this letter, A. M. Markova [3]. She wishes to dedicate herself to an artistic career. Do not refuse her your patronage and attention.

I embrace you!

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. ↑ On the autograph letter the year "91" is written in pencil by an unidentified hand.
  2. ↑ Acquired by the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve in 2015. See Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 22 (2015), p. 171.
  3. ↑ Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Markova (1865–1924), a operatic soprano who went on to become an artist at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1892 to 1912.