[176] The representative of the firm of Bechstein.
[177] The celebrated general.
[178] Gustav Mahler, afterwards conductor at the Vienna Opera, also produced Eugene Oniegin and Iolanthe in the Austrian capital.
[179] Tchaikovsky presented several autograph scores to the Imperial Public Library, Petersburg.
[180] Tchaikovsky was conducting for the benefit of Prianichnikov and the Kiev Opera Company, then in Moscow.
[181] Anatol was one of the nine commissioners chosen by the Tsarevich to inquire into the failure of the crops and the sufferings of the starving peasants in Siberia.
[182] George, the son of Nicholas Tchaikovsky, to whom the composer left his real estate and a life annuity of 1,200 roubles per annum.
[183] “Is changed to desire.”
[184] Katharine Oboukhov, a second cousin of Tchaikovsky.
[185] Neue Freie Presse, March 30th, 1901. The above is quoted from the German edition of The Life and Letters of Tchaikovsky.