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{{letterhead
|Date=3/15 September 1887
|To=[[Emiliya Pavlovskaya]]
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Moscow]] (Russia): {{RUS-Mt}} (Pavlovskaya collection)
|Publication={{bibx|1940/226|Чайковский на Московской сцене}} (1940), p. 401<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 205–206
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|''3 сентября [18]87 г[ода]''}}
{{centre|Дорогая Эмилия Карловна!}}
Спасибо за милейшее письмо Ваше. Как бы ни хотелось отдохнуть, — а вижу, что съездить необходимо. Да кстати уж нужно 8-го числа быть на юбилее Петербургской консерватории. Я решил выехать 6-го числа вечером. Всё 7-ое число посвящу «''Чародейке''», т. е. решу все: недоразумения и, по мере возможности, сделаю те перемены, которые желательны для партий Князя и Княгини., а затем до начала репетиций уеду опять сюда.

Решительно не понимаю, почему М. А. Славина не получила моего письма. Оно был заказное и было адресовано в Театральную контору. Если поискать, то и квитанция у меня найдётся. Впрочем, я хорошо помню все перемены и в понедельник сообщу их ей.

30-го числа я был уже здесь, а 29 был действительно в Петербурге, или, лучше сказать, в ''Петергофе'', у жены моего умирающего друга. Вечером выехал.

Я приехал в Россию 6 совсем больной и расстроенный, но достаточно было провести 3 дня в деревне, чтобы совершенно, выздороветь.

До свиданья милая, дорогая благодетельница.
{{right|Ваш, П. Чайковский}}
Чтобы не беспокоить Вас, я приду к Вам в понедельник не ранее 4-х часов, а утром повидаю Эдуарда Франц[евича] к Ген[надия] Петр[овича].

|Translated text={{right|''3 September 1887''}}
{{centre|Dear [[Emiliya Karlovna]]!}}
Thank you for your ever so sweet letter. Although I had very much wanted to rest, I can see that is essential for me to come [to [[Saint Petersburg]]] <ref name="note1"/>. Besides, on the 8th I have to be there anyway for the [[Petersburg]] Conservatory's jubilee <ref name="note2"/>. I have decided to leave on the evening of the 6th. I shall devote the whole of the following day to "''[[The Enchantress]]''", that is, I will clear up all the misunderstandings and, as far as possible, make those modifications which are seen as desirable in the parts of the Prince and Princess. After that I shall come back here again until the start of the rehearsals.

I really do not understand why [[M. A. Slavina]] has not received my letter <ref name="note3"/>. It was a registered letter and was addressed to the Theatres' Office. If I were to look for the receipt, I am sure I would find it. Anyway, I remember all the modifications very well, and on Monday I'll tell her about them.

On the 30th I was already back here, but on the 29th I was indeed in [[Petersburg]] <ref name="note4"/>, or rather, in ''[[Peterhof]]'', where I visited the wife of my dying friend <ref name="note5"/>. I left in the evening.

I arrived in Russia quite sick and upset, but the three days I have now spent in the countryside have proved sufficient for me to recover completely.

See you soon, my dear and cherished benefactress <ref name="note6"/>.
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
So as not to trouble you, I shall come to your place on Monday after 4 o'clock; in the morning I shall go and see [[Eduard Frantsevich]] and [[Gennady Petrovich]].
}}
==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In her letter to Tchaikovsky of 2/14 September 1887 [[Emiliya Pavlovskaya]] explained that the first rehearsals for ''[[The Enchantress]]'' had been postponed until the end of September, but that the chief director of the Imperial Theatres, [[Gennady Kondratyev]], wanted Tchaikovsky to come to [[Saint Petersburg]] earlier to sort out some problems with the ''tessitura'' of the parts of the Prince and the Princess. [[Pavlovskaya]]'s letter has been published in {{bibx|1940/226|Чайковский на московской сцене}} (1940), p. 399–400.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The 25th anniversary of the foundation of the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory.</ref>
<ref name="note3">See [[Letter 3314]] to [[Mariya Slavina]], 8/20 August 1887. In this letter Tchaikovsky outlined some possible modifications to the part of the Princess in ''[[The Enchantress]]'', which [[Slavina]], who was due to sing that role at the opera's premiere, had requested.</ref>
<ref name="note4">At the end of her letter of 2/14 September 1887 [[Pavlovskaya]] had asked whether it was true that Tchaikovsky had been in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 30 August/11 September. She was evidently surprised that he had not called on her after his return to Russia from abroad.</ref>
<ref name="note5">[[Mariya Kondratyeva]], wife of [[Nikolay Kondratyev]].</ref>
<ref name="note6">From his earliest letters to [[Pavlovskaya]] Tchaikovsky had called her his "benefactress", thereby emphasizing how grateful he was to her for her enthusiastic attitude towards ''[[Mazepa]]'' (in which she created the role of Mariya at the opera's premiere), as well as towards ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'', in which she sang Tatyana many times.</ref>
</references>

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