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Tony: Omitted "were" to avoid repetition

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Omitted "were" to avoid repetition

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	\|Translated text={{centre\|Most respected [[Vladimir Stasov\|Vladimir Vasilyevich]]!}}		\|Translated text={{centre\|Most respected [[Vladimir Stasov\|Vladimir Vasilyevich]]!}}
	For God's sake forgive me. I waited for you from 10.30 until 11.15, and since, apparently, ~~were~~ you were not coming today, I then decided I had to go out owing to unforeseen circumstances. Nor can I be at the exhibition <ref name="note1"/>. In any case, I still hope to see you.		For God's sake, forgive me. I waited for you from 10.30 until 11.15, and since, apparently, you were not coming today, I then decided I had to go out owing to unforeseen circumstances. Nor can I be at the exhibition <ref name="note1"/>. In any case, I still hope to see you.
	{{right\|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
	I enclose my cabinet portrait <ref name="note2"/>.		I enclose my cabinet portrait <ref name="note2"/>.

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{{letterhead
|Date=8/20 March 1887
|To=[[Vladimir Stasov]]
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 738, No. 343, л. 61)
|Publication=''{{bibx|1909/10|Русская мысль}}'' (1909), No. 3, p. 146<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 57
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{centre|Многоуважаемый Владимир Васильевич!}}
Ради Бога простите. Я ожидал Вас с 10½ до 11¼, и так как, по-видимому, Вы сегодня не зайдёте ко мне, то решился уйти из дому ввиду крайней необходимости. На выставке тоже быть не могу. Во всяком случае, надеюсь ещё повидаться с Вами.
{{right|Ваш, П. Чайковский}}

При сем кабинетный портрет мой.

|Translated text={{centre|Most respected [[Vladimir Stasov|Vladimir Vasilyevich]]!}}
For God's sake forgive me. I waited for you from 10.30 until 11.15, and since, apparently, were you were not coming today, I then decided I had to go out owing to unforeseen circumstances. Nor can I be at the exhibition <ref name="note1"/>. In any case, I still hope to see you.
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
I enclose my cabinet portrait <ref name="note2"/>.
}}
==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was probably referring to the Association of Travelling and Art Exhibitions (Товарищества передвижных и художественных выставок), whose exhibition was on show in [[Saint Petersburg]] at this time.</ref>
<ref name="note2">This photograph has survived in the archives of {{RUS-SPil}}, and bears the inscription: "To deeply respected [[Vladimir Stasov|Vladimir Vladimirovich Stasov]]. P. Tchaikovsky. [[Saint Petersburg]], 8 March 1887" («Глубокоуважаемому Владимиру Васильевич Стасову. П. Чайковский. С. Петербург, 8 марта 1887 г.»).</ref>
</references>