Vladimir Pogozhev
Russian military officer, lawyer and archaeologist (b. 1851; d. 1935), born Vladimir Petrovich Pogozhev (Владимир Петрович Погожев).
After serving as an officer in the Semyonovsky Regiment, he became an official of the board of the Imperial Theatres in 1882. The following year, he was promoted to manager of the office of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, where he remained until 1908. He was an admirer of Tchaikovsky's work, and helped to promote the staging of the composer's operas and ballets in the Russian capital.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
15 letters from Tchaikovsky to Vladimir Pogozhev have survived, dating from 1887 to 1892, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 3177 – 10/22 February 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3461 – 2/14 January 1888, from Lübeck
- Letter 3537 – 28 March/9 April 1888, from Tiflis
- Letter 3554 – 25 April/7 May 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3560 – 28 April/10 May 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3664 – 10/22 September 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3682 – 1/13 October 1888, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3844 – 26 April/8 May 1889, from Tiflis
- Letter 4119 – 24 May/5 June 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4130 – 31 May/12 June 1890, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4210 – 3/15 September 1890, from Kiev
- Letter 4280 – 24 December 1890/5 January 1891, from Kamenka
- Letter 4289 – 6/18 January 1891, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4512 – 16/28 October 1891, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4783 – 11/23 October 1892, from Klin
4 letters from Pogozhev to Tchaikovsky, dating from 1887 to 1890, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 3623–3626).
Bibliography
- Добавления к воспоминаниям В. П. Погожева (1924)
- Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1924)
- Нотные автографы и неизданные письма П. И. Чайковского (1941)
- Найдены рукописи П. И. Чайковского (1946)
- Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1962)
- Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1973)
- Persoonlijke onmoetingen met Tsjaikovski (1979)
- Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1979)
- Воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском (1980)
- Vladimir Pogozhev (1993)
- Notwendige Ergänzung zu Pogoshews Schilderung (1994)
- Eine Episode in meinen Beziehungen zu Tschaikowsky und seinen Verleger Jürgenson (1994)
- Tschaikowskys Begräbnis (1994)
- Vladimir Pogozhev (1999)
