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|Date=14/26 November 1889<br />
|To=[[Avgust Gerke]]<br />
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 654, No. 118)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 211<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{centre|Милый друг!}}<br />
До публики, которая будет в пятницу, мне нет никакого дела. Я ''не могу'' пригласить Ант[она] Гр[игорьевича] ранее ''пятницы'', ибо предварительно должен приготовить к надлежащему аккомпанированию оркестр, для каковой цели я пригласил на завтра ''Влуменфельда''. Итак, пожалуйста, попроси Антона Григ[орьевича] быть на репетиции в пятницу в час, когда ему угодно. Впрочем, в четверг днём я зайду к нему и приглашу лично. Мне невозможно звать его завтра, ибо и оркестр не готов и ''я не готов''.<br />
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Ох, эта ''публика'' на репетициях! Это величайшее зло! Я на неё не буду обращать никакого внимания.<br />
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Мне очень жаль, что ты, бедный, болен опять!!<br />
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Обнимаю.<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{centre|Dear friend!}}<br />
The public who are going to be there on Friday are none of my concern. I ''cannot'' invite [[Anton Grigoryevich]] earlier than ''Friday'', because I must adequately prepare the orchestral accompaniment beforehand, and for this purpose I've invited ''Blumenfeld'' <ref name="note1"/> tomorrow. And so please ask [[Anton Grigoryevich]] to attend rehearsals on Friday at a time of his choosing. I'll be going to invite him in person on Thursday afternoon anyway. It's impossible for me to invite him tomorrow, because the orchestra is not ready and ''I am not ready''.<br />
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Oh, the ''public'' rehearsals! They're the greatest of all evils! I shan't be paying them any attention whatsoever.<br />
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I'm very sorry that you are ill again, poor fellow!!<br />
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I embrace you.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Feliks Mikhaylovich Blumenfeld (1863-1921), pianist, conductor and professor at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory, who was to play the solo part in a rehearsal of [[Anton Rubinstein]]'s Konzertstück in A-flat major for piano and orchestra, Op. 113, which the author was due to perform at his jubilee concert on 19 November/1 December 1889.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett