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Letter 3192

Date2/14 March 1887
Addressed toEmiliia Pavlovskaia
Where writtenSaint Petersburg
LanguageRussian
Autograph LocationKlin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a3, No. 281)
PublicationЧайковский на Московской сцене (1940), p. 385
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XIV (1974), p. 57.
NotesTelegram

Russian text (original)

English translation
Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
Петербург, 1887 г., 2 марта Petersburg, 1887, 2 March
ТЕЛЕГРАММА TELEGRAM
Буду у вас около пяти часов. Will come to you around five o'clock [1].
Чайковский Tchaikovsky
Notes:
  1. Tchaikovsky had arrived in Saint Petersburg on 23 February/7 March 1887 to prepare for the concert of his works which he was due to conduct at the Philharmonic Society on 5/17 March. At this concert excerpts from The Enchantress were performed for the first time (one of Kuma's arias sung by Aleksandra Panaeva-Kartsova and the Dance of the Tumblers). Tchaikovsky returned to Maidanovo on 12/24 March. During his stay in Saint Petersburg, as entries in his diary show, he called on Emiliia Pavlovskaia several times, and on 11/23 March she and her husband were among those who saw Tchaikovsky off at the station. However, the visit to Pavlovskaia's house on 2/14 March referred to in this telegram is not recorded in Tchaikovsky's diary—note based on information provided by Vasilii Kiselev in: Чайковский на московской сцене (1940), p. 385 [back]

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