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{{letterhead
|Date=unknown [after 1882] <ref name="note1"/>
|To=[[Herman Laroche]]
|Place=[[Moscow]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=Italy: private collection <ref name="note2"/>
|Publication=Not previously published
|Notes=Photocopy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} <ref name="note3"/>
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist

|Original text=Милый Маня! Я совсем позабыл, что обещал заехать в 12 час[ов] за Парашей и вместе ехать к отцу её. Теперь 10 ч[асов]; мне не хочется Вас будить раньше времени и я оставляю Вам эту записочку. Прошу вас, вставши, тотчас одеться и ехать к 12 часам к Параше; оттуда все трое пойдём вместе. А я, имею ещё много времени, иду сейчас в церковь и пройду оттуда к Пане.
{{right|Петя}}

|Translated text=Dear [[Herman Laroche|Manya]]! I completely forgot that I'd promised to call on [[Parasha]] at 12 o'clock so that we could drive together to her father's <ref name="note4"/>. It's now 10 o'clock: I don't want to wake you before it's necessary and so I'm leaving this note for you. Once you're up I kindly ask you to get dressed immediately and to be at [[Parasha]]'s by 12 o'clock. From there all three of us <ref name="note5"/> will set off together. As I still have a lot of time, I'm going to church now and will make my way to [[Praskovya Tchaikovskaya|Panya]]'s from there.
{{right|Petya}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The ''terminus post quem'' for this undated letter is 1882, the year that the composer's younger brother [[Anatoly]] married [[Praskovya Konshina]] (1864–1956), whom Tchaikovsky refers to several times in the letter (by her pet names "Parasha" and "Panya"). Because her father is also mentioned (see note 4 below), it can be stated beyond any doubt that this letter was written in [[Moscow]]. Dr Polina Vaidman, senior curator at the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in [[Klin]] pointed out that it was most likely written in the first half of 1885, before [[Anatoly]] and [[Praskovya]] moved to [[Tiflis]], where [[Anatoly]] was to take up the post of state prosecutor. Since we know that [[Herman Laroche]] was living permanently in [[Moscow]] from 1884 to 1888, the year 1885 seems quite likely. However, this must still be considered a tentative dating. Unfortunately, as Dr Vaidman established, none of the letters from [[Laroche]] to Tchaikovsky that have survived in the archive at [[Klin]] refer to any of the events described in the letter above, and so there is not enough circumstantial evidence to corroborate that dating.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The description of the letter in an Italian Christie's catalogue from 2004 can be seen in the [http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/cajkovskij,-peter-il-ic-1840-1893-.-bellissima-l-1-c-86fig17qke Invaluable auction database] (last viewed on 3 February 2012). Dr Thomas Venning of the Christie's Books & Manuscripts Department in [[London]] has confirmed that the letter (advertised as lot 394) was not sold at the time.</ref>
<ref name="note3">Dr Vaidman established that a photocopy of this letter was sent to the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in 1971 by Louisa von Westernhagen, the founder (in 1952) of the former Tschaikowsky-Studio in [[Hamburg]]. The composer's grand niece [[Kseniya Davydova]], who was then working as a curator at the museum, tentatively dated the letter to 1887, but did not include it in any of the volumes of the Soviet collected edition of Tchaikovsky's correspondence that subsequently appeared.</ref>
<ref name="note4">[[Praskovya]]'s father, Vladimir Dmitriyevich Konshin (1835 [or 1829]–1915), was a merchant of the first guild in [[Moscow]]. He was a business associate of the Tretyakov brothers [[Pavel Tretyakov|Pavel]] and [[Sergey Tretyakov|Sergey]] and was also married to their sister, Yelizaveta Mikhaylovna Tretyakova (1835–1870).</ref>
<ref name="note5">[[Laroche]], a good friend of Tchaikovsky's from their years at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory, was also acquainted with [[Anatoly]] and [[Praskovya]]. In the summer of 1884 he had been their guest at [[Skabeyevo]] at the same time as the composer was staying there.</ref>
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</references>

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