Letter 3149
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Russian text (original)
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English translation
Copyright © 2010 by
Luis Sundkvist
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| Москва, 1887 г., 20 января |
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Moscow, 1887, 20 January
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TELEGRAM |
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Бесконечно благодарен за сочувствие. Всё сошло очень благополучно. Подробности напишу. Целую ручки. Ещё и ещё спасибо, дорогая благодетельница.
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Infinitely grateful for sympathy. Everything went very well [1]. Shall write with the
details [2]. I kiss your hands. Once again thanks, dear
benefactress [3].
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Чайковский
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Tchaikovsky
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Notes:
- The première of Cherevichki at the
Moscow Bol'shoi Theatre on 19/31 January 1887 at which Tchaikovsky himself had conducted—this was in effect his baptism of fire as a professional conductor (if one excludes a few earlier, not very successful attempts in the concert-hall).
Pavlovskaia, who could not come to
Moscow because of her commitments at the
Saint Petersburg Mariinskii Theatre, had sent a wreath to
Ippolit Al'tani, asking him to present it to Tchaikovsky at the end of the performance, as well as wiring a telegram to the composer on the day of the première: "I am inwardly sharing your agitation. I am certain it will be a huge success. Congratulations".
Pavlovskaia's telegram has been published in:
Чайковский на московской сцене (1940), p. 378
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- See letter 3150 to Pavlovskaia on the same date
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- From his earliest letters to Pavlovskaia Tchaikovsky had called her his "benefactress", thereby emphasizing how grateful he was to her for her enthusiastic attitude towards
Mazepa (in which she created the role of Mariia at the opera's première), as well as towards
Evgenii Onegin, in which she sang Tat'iana many times
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