Letters to His Family: An Autobiography

Alesha ALEXANDRA DAVYDOVA ANATOLI TCHAIKOVSKY Moscow Anton Rubinstein April MODEST TCHAIKOVSKY arrived Artôt Balakirev Berlin Bolshoi Theatre Brailov brother charming Clarens composing concert Conservatoire dear Modia dear Tolia December delightful dinner embrace Eugene Onegin everything February feel finished Florence friends Frolovskoie Golubchik Good-bye happy hope imagine January journey Kamenka Kiev kiss Klin Kolia Kondratiev Kotek Laroche leave letter Leva libretto live Lizaveta Mikhailovna Maidanovo March Mme von Meck MODEST TCHAIKOVSKY Moscow morning Nadezhda Filaretovna Napravnik nice night Nikolai November o'clock October opera Oprichnik orchestral overture Papasha Papochka Paris performance piano Piotr played pleasure PRASKOVIA VLADIMIROVNA TCHAIKOVSKAIA rehearsals roubles Rubinstein Russian Musical Society San Remo Sasha Shilovsky singing soon St Petersburg stay summer symphony Taneev TCHAIKOVSKY Clarens telegram tell theatre Tolia tomorrow upset Vakula Vassilievna VLADIMIR DAVYDOV Volodia walk weather week worried write written wrote yesterday Yurgenson