[46] E. A. Lavrovsky, a famous singer and a teacher at the Conservatoire.
[47] Her parents’ name was Frolovsky.
[48] She carried her seclusion to such lengths that Tchaikovsky’s sister and brother-in-law, Alexandra and Leo Davidov, never saw Nadejda von Meck, although their daughter married one of her sons. Their friendly intercourse was carried on entirely by correspondence. Nicholas Rubinstein was almost the only visitor from the outside world whom she cared to receive.
[49] J. Kotek.
[50] No. 4 in F minor.
[51] Eugene Oniegin.
[52] Of Eugene Oniegin.
[53] The condition of Tchaikovsky’s health is probably accountable for many errors in this letter. In 1877 the pictures of which he speaks were not in the Villa, but in the Palazzo Borghese. Domenicchino’s picture was in the Vatican. The portraits of Cæsar Borgia and Sixtus V. were not by Raphael. The latter was not made Pope until sixty-five years after the death of the celebrated painter.
[54] The Basilica.
[55] Kotek, who was then studying with Joachim in Berlin, joined Tchaikovsky for a few days in Vienna.