Letter 4549

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 14/26 November 1891
Addressed to Nikolay Konradi
Where written Maydanovo
Language Russian
Autograph Location unknown
Publication П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма (1951), p. 283
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-А (1976), p. 268
Notes Manuscript copy in Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve

Text and Translation

Based on a handwritten copy in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
14 ноября [18]91

Милый друг Коля!

Спасибо, спасибо, спасибо тебе за ссуду, которая пришла очень кстати. Если я своевременно не благодарил, — то это вследствие обычной суеты, связанной с постановкой оперы. Настоящим образом поблагодарю тебя устно в Петербурге, в конце месяца.

Обнимаю.

П. Чайковский

14 November 1891

My dear friend Kolya

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the loan, which came very opportunely. If my thanks are overdue, this is because of the usual commotion associated with the staging of an opera [1]. I shall thank you properly in Petersburg at the end of the month [2].

I hug you.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades was staged for the first time at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 4/16 November 1891.
  2. Tchaikovsky left Maydanovo for Saint Petersburg on 24 November/6 December 1891.