Chaikovsky. The story of a lonely life. Berberova N.N.

Nina Berberova, one of the most famous writers and memoirists of the first wave of emigration, in the 1930s writes a fictional biography of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She does not keep silent about the composer’s hidden life, but remains tact and fidelity to the facts. Berberova creates a portrait of a living person, a portrait without a mask.

an eternal stranger, she talks about the Russian composer as if she had never left Russia...

“When I printed my biography of Tchaikovsky feuilleton in“ The last news ”, Alexander Nikolaevich Benois invariably told me that he was feeling my contemporary,“ as if you knew everyone - Bob, Modest, and Argo (Argutinsky) ”, and suddenly, once, carried away, he suddenly exclaimed: - Remember , at the premiere of the “peak lady”... - and suddenly he was terribly embarrassed, looked down and sang in a thin voice “Evening, clouds...” (the premiere was nine years before my birth). ” (Nina Berebrova. "MY CHANGE").