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Nikolai Khristoforov

Russian cellist and civil servant (b. 1836; d. 1892), born as Nikolai Osipovich Khristoforov (Николай Осипович Христофоров, Nikolaj Osipovič Hristoforov, Nikolay Osipovich Christoforov).

Khristoforov was a cellist in the Imperial Opera Orchestras in Saint Petersburg from 1856 until 1860, rising to become director of the central music library of the Imperial Theatres from 1877.

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Nikolai Khristoforov:

• 8 letters have survived from Tchaikovsky to Nikolai Khristoforov, dating from 1883 to 1890.