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|Date=17/29 October 1888<br />
|To=[[Adolf Čech]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=German<br />
|Autograph=[[Prague]] (Czechia): {{priv}}<br />
|Publication={{bib|1952/46|Pražské návštěvy P. I. Čajkovského}} (1952), p.136<br/>{{bibx|1952/2|Советская музыка}} (1952), No. 7, p. 68 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 572–573<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=German<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|17/29 {{sic|Oct[obre]|Oktober}} [18]88}}<br />
{{centre|Hochgeehrter Herr Čech!}}<br />
Heute habe ich zum ersten Маl in meinem Leben die gestochene ''Раrtitur von "Оnеguinе"'' ins Hände genommen und gesehen! Du, lieber Gott, wie das abscheulich schlecht gedruckt ist und was für eine {{sic|Unmasse|Unmaße}} von Fehlern!!! Ich war ganz {{sic|ausser|außer}} sich: Welche Schande und wie ich mich schäme! Um Gottes Willen, geehrter Herr ''Čech'', seien Sie nicht böse und entschuldigen Sie mich, obgleich die Schuld nicht meine eigentlich ist! Und nicht nur eine zahllose Menge von Druckfehlern, — aber die Bezeichnungen (р., f., u. s. w.) fehlen augenblicklich. Alles das wird Ihnen sehr viel Mühe geben und es macht mich ganz unglücklich! Bitte noch ein Маl um Verzeihung!!!<br />
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Nach 27 Tage werde ich schon in Prag sein! <br />
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Auf Wiedersehen!<br />
{{right|Р. Cajkovskiy}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|17/29 October 1888}}<br />
{{centre|Highly respected Herr [[Čech]]}}<br />
Today, for the first time in my life, I picked up the printed ''full score of "[[Onegin]]"'' <ref name="note1"/> and looked through it! My God, how badly printed it is and such a plethora of errors!!! I was beside myself: what a disgrace, and how ashamed I am! For God's sake, respected Herr ''[[Čech]]'', do not be angry and forgive me, even though I am not actually to blame! And besides a countless number of typographical errors, the indications (p., f., etc.) are missing every other minute. All this will cause you a great deal of trouble, and it makes me very unhappy! Once again please forgive me!<br />
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In another 27 days I shall already be in [[Prague]]!<ref name="note2"/><br />
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Until we meet!<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">The full score of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' had been published by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in December 1880. At that time Tchaikovsky believed that this would be of little commercial interest, and he was not involved in its production (see, for example, [[Letter 1422]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 5/17 February 1880 and [[Letter 1518]] to Karl Albrecht, 24 June/6 July 1880). [[Jurgenson]] issued a corrected edition of the full score in 1891.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky arrived in [[Prague]] on 16/28 November 1888 to conduct ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]''.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett