Letter 586

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 18/30 July 1877 [1]
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2154)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VI (1961), p. 157

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Пётр Иванович!

Ради Бога, извини, что я тебя обманываю. Я отдам тебе 175 р[ублей] сер[ебром] в самом непродолжительном времени.

Твой, П. Чайковский

For God's sake forgive me for swindling you. I'll give you 175 silver rubles in the very near future.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Dated according to a note by Pyotr Jurgenson.