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	[[Karlusha]]! [[Aleksey]] is going to the post office now, and I'm rushing a few words of reply <ref name="note1"/>. I am not on any committee of the Ministry of Public Education, and no-one has ever asked me. And were I to be invited, I should refuse. You believe the newspaper reports? Surely you know that they tell lies! How could I belong to the same society as [[~~Solovyev~~]] and Famintsyn?<ref name="note2"/>		[[Karlusha]]! [[Aleksey]] is going to the post office now, and I'm rushing a few words of reply <ref name="note1"/>. I am not on any committee of the Ministry of Public Education, and no-one has ever asked me. And were I to be invited, I should refuse. You believe the newspaper reports? Surely you know that they tell lies! How could I belong to the same society as [[Solovyov]] and Famintsyn?<ref name="note2"/>

	Be that as it may, golubchik: come to visit me; I should be very glad to see and talk with you. Come whenever you want this week; just send me a note to say when. Greetings to Anna Leontyevna and all of you.		Be that as it may, golubchik: come to visit me; I should be very glad to see and talk with you. Come whenever you want this week; just send me a note to say when. Greetings to Anna Leontyevna and all of you.

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{{letterhead
|Date=4/16 February 1892
|To=[[Karl Albrecht]]
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Moscow]] (Russia): {{RUS-Mcm}} (Ф. 37, No. 71)
|Publication={{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI-Б}} (1979), p. 35
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|''4 февр[аля]''}}
Карлуша! Алексей едет сейчас на почту, и я тороплюсь ответить несколько слов. Ни в какой комиссии при Мин[истерстве] нар[одного] просв[ещения] я не состою, и никто не приглашал меня. А если бы пригласили, я бы отказался. Ты веришь газетным известиям? Неужели ты не знаешь, что они врут! И могу ли я быть в одном обществе с Соловьевым и Фаминцыным?

Вот что, голубчик: приезжай-ка ко мне; очень бы рад был повидаться и побеседовать. Приезжай, когда хочешь, на этой неделе; только дай знать письмецом когда. Анне Леонтьевне и всем твоим приветствия.

Обнимаю,
{{right|П. Чайковский}}

|Translated text={{right|''4 February''}}
[[Karlusha]]! [[Aleksey]] is going to the post office now, and I'm rushing a few words of reply <ref name="note1"/>. I am not on any committee of the Ministry of Public Education, and no-one has ever asked me. And were I to be invited, I should refuse. You believe the newspaper reports? Surely you know that they tell lies! How could I belong to the same society as [[Solovyev]] and Famintsyn?<ref name="note2"/>

Be that as it may, golubchik: come to visit me; I should be very glad to see and talk with you. Come whenever you want this week; just send me a note to say when. Greetings to Anna Leontyevna and all of you.

I hug you,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was replying to [[Karl Albrecht]]'s letter of 2/14 February 1892, in which [[Albrecht]] asked the composer to recommend his appointment as a member of a committee "to improve the teaching of singing in schools".</ref>
<ref name="note2">Aleksandr Sergeyevich Famintsyn (1841–1896), Russian music critic and composer, with whom Tchaikovsky had long-standing disagreements.</ref>
</references>