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|Date=14/26 April 1892<br />
|To=[[Modest Tchaikovsky]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 1993)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1902/25|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 3}} (1902), p. 534 (abridged)<br/>{{bib|1955/37|П. И. Чайковский. Письма к близким}} (1955), p. 512<br/>{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI-Б}} (1979), p. 77<br/>{{bib|1981/81|Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 513 (English translation)<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''Москва''<br/>14 апр[еля] [18]92}}<br />
Модя! Ради Бога, прости, — такое сумасшедшее время, что решительно писать нельзя. Репетиции (ещё ни разу не дирижировал вследствие болезней артистов), корректуры, гости и т. д. не дают минуты покоя. Тороплюсь с корректурой «Иоланты» — она забирает весь досуг. Тяжёлое время переживаю, но совершенно здоров.<br />
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Обнимаю вас обоих.<br />
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}<br />
Напишу, честное слово, на днях.<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Moscow]]''<br/>14 April 1892}}<br />
[[Modya]]! For God's sake forgive me — it's such a mad time that I'm absolutely unable to write. Rehearsals (which I still haven't conducted because the artists are ill) <ref name="note1"/>, proofs, guests, etc., don't give me a minute's peace. I'm pressing on with the proofs of ''[[Iolanta]]'' — which is taking up every spare moment <ref name="note2"/>. It's a trying experience, but I'm completely well. <br />
<br />
I hug you both.<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
I'll write soon, on my word of honour.<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">[[Ippolit Pryanishnikov]]'s opera company were rehearsing [[Charles Gounod]]'s opera ''Faust''. Owing to the indisposition of the artists, the performance was delayed until 20 April/2 May 1892.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky was correcting [[Sergey Taneyev]]'s vocal-piano reduction of the opera ''[[Iolanta]]''.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett