[136] Thus ended the plan for sending Tchaikovsky as musical representative of Russia to the Paris Exhibition of 1889.
[137] Vassily Sapellnikov.
[138] The opera is entitled Le Dernier Sorcier.
[139] This work, the libretto of which was by Galée and Detroyat, was never actually begun.
[140] In his diary Tchaikovsky only mentions V. d’Indy and Chaminade.
[141] The servant of his friend Kondratiev.
[142] Massenet and Brahms having declined their invitations, the following conductors were engaged for 1889-90:—Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Siloti, Arensky, Klindworth, A. Rubinstein, Slatin, Dvořák, Altani, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Napravnik, and Colonne.
[143] A celebrated Russian novelist and writer of short stories.
[144] The Grand Duke had dedicated his last volume of verse to Tchaikovsky.
[145] For the story of Pique Dame see [Appendix B], p. [759].