Date	27 January/8 February 1887
Addressed to	Emiliia Pavlovskaia
Where written	Moscow
Language	Russian
Autograph Location	Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a3, No. 280)
Publication	Чайковский на Московской сцене (1940), p. 384 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XIV (1974), p. 32.
Notes	Telegram

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Russian text (original)		English translation Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
Москва, 1887 г., 27 января		Moscow, 1887, 27 January
ТЕЛЕГРАММА		TELEGRAM
Сердечно радуюсь, благодарю, счастлив успехом милейшего и симпатичнейшего Хохлова.		Am sincerely glad, grateful, happy over success of ever so dear and nice Khokhlov [1].
Чайковский		Tchaikovsky

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Notes:

1. In a telegram wired from Saint Petersburg on 27 January/8 February 1887 Emiliia Pavlovskaia had informed Tchaikovsky of the successful performance of Evgenii Onegin at the Mariinskii Theatre the previous evening, in which the notable baritone Pavel Akinfievich Khokhlov (1854–1919) had sung the title-role and she herself had sung Tat'iana. Alexander III had attended the performance, which was put on specially at his request. Pavlovskaia's telegram has been published in: Чайковский на московской сцене (1940), p. 384, and its text is as follows: "Yesterday Onegin—brilliant success. Khokhlov—mighty furore. [He is] an ideal, unique Onegin. [Your] sincerely devoted Tat'iana. Pavlovskaia" [back]

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