Tschaikovski

Nikolai and Tschaikovski set up a ménage together for a time.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Modeste says that without this relief from anxiety Tschaikovski would have died.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

We know now that late in June, 1877, Tschaikovski announced definitely to his brother Anatol, that he was engaged to, and would soon marry,

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Then Tschaikovski grew very distant to his friends and eccentric in his manner; a little later he fled to Moscow, and in a few days came word that he was dangerously ill.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Tschaikovski was thenceforth an institution fully endowed.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

The same month a telegram informed Tschaikovski that his fiancée had very suddenly become engaged to a singer in her own troupe, the Spanish baritone, Padilla y Ramos, who was two years younger even than

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Tschaikovski wrote his brother a letter, excitedly referring to the acceptance of his opera, and coldly hinting that his love affair would probably come to nothing.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Tschaikovski himself had looked over his own diary, and had been so terrified at what he read that he destroyed a great portion of it before his death in 1893.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Tschaikovski, on receiving the first news, seemed "more surprised than pained."

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914

Tschaikovski, however, had not learned that womankind was not his kind; so he flirted a little with the beautiful niece of one Tarnovski, for instance, and with an unknown at a masked ball.

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Rupert Hughes 1914