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|Date=3/15 October 1890<br />
|To=[[Léonce Détroyat]]<br />
|Place=[[Tiflis]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication=Not published <br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
Only two brief extracts are known from the publication of this letter in Sotheby's 1988 sale catalogue, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter <ref name="note2"/>. <br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{...}} Ce qui se passe dans "la Georgienne" ressemble si peu sous tous les rapports à la réalité, que cela peut compromettre les grandes qualités de votre œuvre {{...}}<br />
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{{...}} ne pas mieux que d'appuyer votre demande auprès de M[onsieu]r Wsevolojsky et je Vous promets de la soutenir de toutes mes forces. <br />
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Mon adresse à {{sic|Petersbourg|Pétersbourg}} est 24, Fontanka.<br />
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Je Vous serre bien cordialement la main, cher Monsieur.<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{...}} The events of "La Georgiènne" bear so little resemblance to reality, that this may compromise the great quality of your work {{...}}<br />
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{{...}} do no more than to support your request to Mr [[Vsevolozhsky]], and I promise to support you with all my strength.<br />
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My address in [[Petersburg]] is 24, Fontanka.<br />
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I shake your hand warmly, dear monsieur.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">The autograph was auctioned in 1986 and 1988 by Sotheby's, [[London]] — see their ''Catalogues of Sales'', issue 7480, part 1 (1986), p. 260 (item no. 578), and ''Music. Continental Manuscripts and Period Books. Science and Medicine. [[London]]. 5th and 6th May 1988'' (1988), p. 215 (lot 485, addressee incorrectly identified as [[Louis Gallet]]).</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">See also {{bibx|2014/31|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 21/I (2014), p. 91-92.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett