[96] This agreeable change in the attitude of the authorities towards Tchaikovsky was due to the influence of I. Vsievolojsky, who had recently been appointed Director of the Opera House.
[97] This was the end of all relations between Tchaikovsky and Tkatchenko.
[98] The singer who created the part of Maria in the Moscow performance of Mazeppa.
[99] On account of Tchaikovsky’s nervous condition the account of the success of Mazeppa was slightly overdrawn.
[100] Nicholas and Anna von Meck, née Davidov (Tchaikovsky’s niece), who were on their wedding tour.
[101] His brother-in-law, Leo Davidov.
[102] At the Imperial Opera.
[103] Tchaikovsky addressed Emilie Pavlovskaya by this term in gratitude for her splendid interpretation of the heroine in Mazeppa.
[104] This means The Little Shoes, but the opera has since been republished as Les Caprices d’Oxane.
[105] A tale by Poushkin.