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<p>1 revision imported</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{letterhead<br /> |Date=24 October/5 November 1891<br /> |To=[[Pavel Peterssen]]<br /> |Place=[[Moscow]]<br /> |Language=Russian<br /> |Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 302)<br /> |Publication={{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 250–251<br /> }}<br /> ==Text and Translation==<br /> {{Lettertext<br /> |Language=Russian<br /> |Translator=Brett Langston<br /> |Original text={{right|24 окт[ября]&lt;br/&gt;&#039;&#039;Больш[ая] Московская гостиница. Москва&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{centre|Многоуважаемый Павел Леонтьевич!}}<br /> Бывший в оркестре Р[усского] муз[ыкального] общ[ества] артист &#039;&#039;Мирчке&#039;&#039; &lt;ref name=&quot;note1&quot;/&gt; просит меня ходатайствовать пред Дирекцией С[анкт] Петерб[ургского] отд[еления] РМО, чтобы с него не требовали не по силам отяготительной уплаты 1530 р[ублей] штрафа, т. е. неустойки за нарушение контракта. Охотно исполняю это и весьма усердно прошу пощадить, если можно, бедного человека. Что мне ему ответить? Потрудитесь написать 2 слова.<br /> {{right|Преданный, П. Чайковский}}<br /> <br /> |Translated text={{right|24 October&lt;br/&gt;&#039;&#039;Grand Moscow Hotel. [[Moscow]]&#039;&#039;}}<br /> {{centre|Most respected [[Pavel Peterssen|Pavel Leontyevich]]!}}<br /> The former Russian Musical Society orchestra artist &#039;&#039;Mirchke&#039;&#039; is asking me to plead with the Directorate of the [[Saint Petersburg]] section of the RMS, in order that he should not have been required to pay a fine of 1530 rubles as a penalty for breach of contact. I do so willingly and strongly urge, if I may, that the poor fellow be excused. How shall I answer him? Kindly write me 2 words.<br /> {{right|Devoted, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br /> }}<br /> ==Notes and References==<br /> &lt;references&gt;<br /> &lt;ref name=&quot;note1&quot;&gt;Tchaikovsky&#039;s correspondence with the percussionist Ernst Wilhelm Mirchke (d. 1893) has not survived.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> &lt;/references&gt;</div>

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