PART VII. CHAPTERS I.-XIX. 1888-1893 539

APPENDICES--A, B, C 726

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF NAMES 773

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF MUSICAL WORKS 779

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1893, FROM A PORTRAIT BY KOUZNIETSOV _Frontispiece_

TO FACE PAGE 2. ILIA PETROVICH TCHAIKOVSKY, THE COMPOSER’S FATHER, IN 1860 4

3. THE HOUSE IN WHICH TCHAIKOVSKY WAS BORN, AT VOTINSK 8

4. THE TCHAIKOVSKY FAMILY IN 1848, FROM A DAGUERROTYPE 14

5. ALEXANDRA ANDREIEVNA TCHAIKOVSKY, THE COMPOSER’S MOTHER, IN 1848 20

6. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1859 (VIGNETTE) 26

7. THE COMPOSER’S FATHER, WITH HIS TWIN SONS MODESTE AND ANATOL 34

8. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1859 (CARTE DE VISITE) 42

9. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1863 56

10. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1867, IN WINTER DRESS 78

11. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1868 102

12. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1873 132

13. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1874 150

14. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1877 214

15. FRAGMENT FROM A LETTER, WITH SKETCH FOR A THEME FOR “THE ENCHANTRESS” 482

16. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1888 540

17. TCHAIKOVSKY AND SILOTI 550

18. TCHAIKOVSKY’S HOUSE AT FROLOVSKOE 560

19. THE HOUSE IN WHICH TCHAIKOVSKY LIVED AT KLIN 680

20. TCHAIKOVSKY’S BEDROOM AT KLIN 694

21. SITTING-ROOM AT KLIN 700

22. TCHAIKOVSKY IN 1893 (TAKEN IN LONDON) 708

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present--this is my life.”--P. TCHAIKOVSKY (_Extract from a letter_)

THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY