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	Now I am comparing that with the present year. I spent this summer very merrily because I spent it in the countryside <ref name="note6"/>. In the evenings I often think of you, of [[Alapaikha]], of [[Votkinsk]]; I recall dear Auntie Nadezhda Timofeyevna <ref name="note7"/> who is now no more.		Now I am comparing that with the present year. I spent this summer very merrily because I spent it in the countryside <ref name="note6"/>. In the evenings I often think of you, of [[Alapaikha]], of [[Votkinsk]]; I recall dear Auntie Nadezhda Timofeyevna <ref name="note7"/> who is now no more.

	But I am spending this time together with people <ref name="note8"/> who, like you, also love		But I am spending this time together with people <ref name="note8"/> who, like you, also love.
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{{letterhead
|Date=20 July/1 August 1851
|To=[[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 33, л. 45–46)
|Publication={{bib|1940/210|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к родным ; том 1}} (1940), p. 32 <br/>{{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 35–36
|Notes=
}}
==Text and Translation==
Spelling and punctuation errors in the original text have not been indicated.
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|20 июля 1851 года}}
Поздравляю вас мой Ангел Папаша со днём вашего Ангела и желаю вам всех благ на свете а вас моя милая душенька мамашинька с дорогим имянинником. Мне весело когда я вспоминаю прошлого году этот день. Я помню как на другой день мы ездили на гулянье Старик и старуха. Я помню палатку я помню лодку я помню хор мужиков, я помню оркестр Екатеринбургский, я помню иллюминацию с вензелем, я помню танцы Спирина и Тёти Лизы я помню Сашу, Малю, Полю и меня сидевших около доброго П. И. Ахматова, я помню всех гостей, я помню милую Зинушу, мило танцующ[ую] с милой Лидушей, я помню милую Сестрицу, я помню всех и помню наконец бедного улетевшего из гнёздышка простившего[ся] со всем более ему не возвратным Петра Чайковского.

Теперь я сравниваю это с нынешним годом. Я провёл это лето очень весело потому что я провёл его в деревне. Часто вечером вспоминаю я об вас, об Алапаихе об Воткинске, я вспоминаю милую Тётеньку Надежду Тимофеевну которой уже более нет.

Но я провожу это время с такими людьми которые также, как и вы любят
{{right|Петра Чайковского}}

|Translated text={{right|20 July 1851}}
I congratulate you, my Angel [[Papasha]], on your name-day, and wish you all the blessings in the world, and you, my sweet darling [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|mamashinka]], I congratulate on your dear celebrant. I feel happy when I remember this day last year. I remember how on the next day we went to "The old folks" pleasure-ground <ref name="note1"/>. I remember the tent, I remember the boat, I remember the peasants' chorus, I remember the orchestra from Yekaterinburg, I remember the illumination with the monogram pattern, I remember the dancing of Spiring <ref name="note2"/> and [[Aunt Liza]], I remember how [[Sasha]], [[Malya]], [[Polya]] and I were sitting around kind P. I. Akhmatov <ref name="note3"/>, I remember all the guests, I remember dear [[Zinayda Olkhovskaya|Zinusha]] dancing so nicely with dear Lidusha <ref name="note4"/>, I remember dear Sestritsa <ref name="note5"/>, I remember everyone and I remember, finally, poor Pyotr Tchaikovsky who flew away from the little nest and has parted with all these things, now irrevocably lost to him.

Now I am comparing that with the present year. I spent this summer very merrily because I spent it in the countryside <ref name="note6"/>. In the evenings I often think of you, of [[Alapaikha]], of [[Votkinsk]]; I recall dear Auntie Nadezhda Timofeyevna <ref name="note7"/> who is now no more.

But I am spending this time together with people <ref name="note8"/> who, like you, also love
{{right|Pyotr Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The name of a place, famous for its remarkable echo, where the inhabitants of [[Alapayevsk]] liked to go on excursions. See {{bib|1997/94|Жизнь Петра Чайковского ; том 1}} (1997), p. 65.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Andrey Nikolayevich Spiring, a colleague of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s at the Alapayevsk iron-works. See {{bib|1997/94|''Жизнь Петра Чайковского'' ; том 1}} (1997), p. 65.</ref>
<ref name="note3">An unidentified acquaintance of the Tchaikovskys at [[Alapayevsk]].</ref>
<ref name="note4">The composer's cousin Lidiya Vladimirovna Tchaikovskaya (married name Olkhovskaya; 1836-1892) was the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s elder brother, [[Vladimir Tchaikovsky|Vladimir]]. She lost her mother when she was quite little, in 1842, and was effectively adopted by [[Ilya]] and his wife [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|Aleksandra]].</ref>
<ref name="note5">'Sestritsa', or 'little sister', was the affectionate name for Tchaikovsky's much older cousin, Anastasiya Vasilyevna Popova (1807–1894), the daughter of [[Ilya Tchaikovsky]]'s older sister [[Yevdokiya Popova]].</ref>
<ref name="note6">Pyotr had spent almost two months of his summer holidays that year on a country estate not far from [[Saint Petersburg]] which belonged to the mother of Mariya Petrovna Vakar (née Markova), the wife of his guardian Platon Alekseyevich Vakar (1826-1899).</ref>
<ref name="note7">Nadezhda Timofeyevna Valtseva, Pyotr's godmother, had died earlier that year. She was an elderly relative of his mother [[Aleksandra Tchaikovskaya|Aleksandra]]. The icon of the Mother of God of Kazan which she bequeathed to him hangs to this day in the composer's bedroom at the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in [[Klin]].</ref>
<ref name="note8">Young Pyotr is referring to his guardian Platon Vakar and the latter's wife Mariya, who were both very kind to him.</ref>
</references>
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