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Le Nozze di Figaro, opera, KV 492 (1786) — see Letter 2253 to Sergey Taneyev, 1/13–3/15 April 1883, quoted above. Requiem, KV 626 (1791) — see ...
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For Tchaikovsky, Mozart's music was like an incarnation of divine beauty in a human form that inspired love, rather than awe (as was the case with Beethoven), and in a remarkable diary entry of 1886 (quoted below) he described Mozart as a "musical Christ". This adoration of Mozart had its origins in Tchaikovsky's childhood, for when he was not yet five he was moved to tears when he heard the orchestrion that his father had brought from <anchor>Saint Petersburg</anchor> play excerpts from Don Giovanni, especially Zerlina's aria "Vedrai, carino". Little Pyotr was so fascinated by the latter melody, even coming from a 'lifeless' mechanical instrument, that his mother showed him how to play it on the piano. Listening to Mozart's music awakened in him a "passionate worship for that genius" which lasted all his life, as his brother Modest observed in his biography of the composer [1].
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Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург), or St. Petersburg is the second-largest city of the Russian Federation.

Until 1918 it was the capital city of the Russian Empire, known from 1914 to 1924 as Petrograd (Петроград) and from 1924 to 1991 as Leningrad (Ленинград).

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## Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg

The Tchaikovsky family moved to Saint Petersburg from November 1848 to May 1849, before removing to Alapayevsk. However, Tchaikovsky returned to the capital in 1850 when he was enrolled at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, and lived in the city until he moved to Moscow in January 1866. His main addresses were as follows:

From
Until
Notes
November 1848
May 1849
Living with his parents at Vasilyevsky Island after moving from Votkinsk. During this period, the composer and his older brother Nikolay attended the Schmelling Boarding School at 14 Bolshoy Prospekt. In May 1849, the family moved to Alapayevsk.
August 1850
May 1852
At the preparatory classes for the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.
May 1852
April 1853
Staying with his aunt Yekaterina Alekseyeva, at 1 Kosoy Lane.
April 1853
May 1859
Boarding at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, 6/2 Fontanka River Embankment. During the holidays Tchaikovsky stayed with his father at Vasilyevsky Island.
3/15 June 1859
May 1863
Working as a clerk at the Ministry of Justice, 1–3 Malaya Sadovaya Street.
September 1863
January 1866
Studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, at Demidov's House, Demidov Lane (now demolished).

Tchaikovsky never again lived permanently in Saint Petersburg, but often stayed with friends and at hotel accommodation in the city from time to time. He also died in Saint Petersburg on 25 October/6 November 1893, at the apartment of his brother Modest at 13 Malaya Morskaya Street. The table below summarises the addresses in the city where he lived or visited.

Years
The place's renter or owner
The address of the time
Modern address
Building's current condition
1848–1849
Aleksandra and Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
Vasilyevsky Island, near the Exchange, Menyayev's House
Birzhevaya Line, 18/2 (Биржевая линия, 18/2)
Overbuilt
1848
Schmelling's boarding school
16 Bolshoy Avenue of Peterburgskaya Side
Bolshoy Avenue, Petrogradskaya Side, 14 (Большой проспект Петроградской стороны, 14)
Preserved
1850–1893
Aleksandrinsky Theatre
2 Aleksandrinskaya Square
2 Ostrovsky Square (Площадь Островского, 2)
Preserved
1852–1853
Aleksandra and Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
41 Sergiyevskaya Street
41 Tchaikovsky Street (Улица Чайковского, 41)
Preserved
1852–1859
Imperial School of Jurisprudence
6/2 Fontanka River Embankment
6/2 Fontanka River Embankment (Набережная реки Фонтанки, 6/2), corner of Tchaikovsky Street (Улица Чайковского)
Preserved, rebuilt in 1893–1896
1851
Platon Vakar's dacha, Markovy's mansion
Nadino village
Nadino, 5 km from Shapki station in the Tosnensky District of Leningrad Oblast
Preserved
1850–1886
Bolshoy Kamenny Theatre
3 Teatralnaya Square
3 Teatralnaya Square (Театральная площадь, 3)
Rebuilt (now occupied by the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory)
1850–1860s
His aunt Yekaterina Alekseyeva's apartment
Corner of Fontanka Embankment and Kosoy Lane
1 Kosoy Lane (Косой переулок, 1)
Preserved
1853–1854
Aleksandra and Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
6 Solianoy Lane, A. Leshcheva's House by the Empty Market
6 Solyanoy Lane (Соляной переулок, 6)
Preserved
1854 and 1858
His aunt Yelizaveta Schobert's apartment
Vasilyevsky Island, 2nd Line, Schiele's House
Vasilyevsky Island, 45 2nd Line (Васильевский остров, 2-я линия, 45)
Preserved
1854–1855 (autumn)
Ilya and his brother Pyotr Tchaikovsky's joint apartment
Vasilyevsky Island, corner of Sredny Avenue and Kadetskaya Line, Osterlov's House
Vasilyevsky Island corner of 10 Sredny Avenue, and 25 Kadetskaya Line (Васильевский остров, угол Среднего проспекта, 10 и Кадетской линии, 25)
Preserved
1855–1858
Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
Vasilyevsky Island, 8th Line, Zabolotsky-Desiatovsky's House, apt. 27
Vasilyevsky Island, 39 8th Line, apt. 31 (Васильевский остров, 8-я линия, 39, кв. 31)
Preserved. Reconstructed inside
1855–1865
Mikhaylovsky Theatre
1 Mikhaylovskaya Square
1 Iskusstv Square (Площадь Искусств, 1)
Preserved
1858–1863
Technological Institute
Zagorodny Avenue, professorial building, principal's apartment.
49 Zagorodny Avenue (Загородный проспект, 49)
Preserved. Reconstructed inside
1859–1862
Ministry of Justice
1–3 Malaya Sadovaya Street, Italyanskaya's corner
1–3 Malaya Sadovaya Street (Малая Садовая, 1–3)
Preserved
1859–1860
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace
Nevsky Prospect, corner with Fontanka River Embankment
41 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 41)
Preserved
1859, 1860, 1866
Galov's dacha, Miatlev's dacha
Novo-Znamenka, 17th verst Peterhof (Petergofskaya) road
13 Chekistov Street (Улица Чекистов, 13)
Preserved
1860–1861
Music classrooms of the Russian Music Society
Mikhaylovskaya Square, Mikhaylovsky Palace
Iskusstv Square, Russian Museum—left wing (Площадь Искусств, Русский музей—левое крыло)
Preserved
1860–1893
Mariinsky Theatre
1 Theatre Square
1 Theatre Square (Театральная площадь, 1)
Preserved
1862–1866
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Corner of Demidov Lane and Moyka River Embankment, Demidov's House
Section of 1 Grivtsova Lane (Участок дома № 1 по переулку Гривцова)
Lost (now occupied by the Electroradio-avtomatika Joint-Stock Company)
1863–1865
Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
16 Leshtukov (Lestokov) Lane
16 Dzhambula Lane (Переулок Джамбула, 16)
Preserved
1860s
Saint Peter's Lutheran Church
Nevsky Prospect
22–24 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект между домами 22 и 24)
Preserved. Reconstructed inside
autumn 1865
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's room
Moyka River Embankment, Prince A. V. Golytsyn's House
Section of 92 Moyka River Embankment (Набережная реки Мойки, участок дома № 92)
Lost
1865
Yelizaveta Schobert's furnished apartment (boarding house)
11 Panteleymonovskaya Street, Zaremba's House
11 Pestelya Street (Улица Пестеля, 11)
Half of the building is intact. The other one was destroyed by a direct hit of a shell during the Siege of Leningrad.
1865
Composer Aleksandr Serov's apartment
29 Ofitserskaya Street, Markelov's House
29 Decembrist Street (Улица Декабристов, 29)
Preserved
1866–1868
Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
7 Kirochnaya Street, apartment 6
7 Kirochnaya Street, apt. 6 (Кирочная улица, 7, кв. 6)
Preserved
October 1865– January 1866
Aleksey Apukhtin's apartment
Corner of Karavannaya Street and Italyanskaya Street, Frolov's House
18 Karavannaya Street (Караванная улица, 18)
Preserved
1868
Mariya Begicheva's apartment
21 Fontanka River Embankment
25 Fontanka River Embankment (Набережная реки Фонтанки, 25)
Overbuilt
1865–1877
Mily Balakirev's apartment
84 Nevsky Prospect, Benardaky's House (outhouse)
84 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 84)
Preserved
From 1867
Lyudmila Shestakova's apartment
Gagarinskaya Street, Olsuf'ev's House
30 Gagarinskaya Street (Гагаринская улица, 30)
Preserved
1870s to 1880
Yelizaveta and Ilya Tchaikovsky's apartment
Corner of Mogilevskaya Street, 7 and Kanonerskaya Street
7 Lermontov Avenue (Лермонтовский проспект, 7)
Preserved
1870s
Vasily Bessel & Co. (music shop and publishing house)
58 Nevsky Prospect
58 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 58)
Preserved in a slightly changed form
1872–1883
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's apartment
25 Furshtatskaya Street, apt. 9
Section of 33 Furshtatskaya Street (Фурштатская улица, участок дома № 33)
Lost
1870s
Nuvellist magazine's editorial office
10 Nevsky Prospect
10 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 10)
Preserved
1874
"Victoria" Hotel
29 Kazanskaya Street
29 Kazanskaya Street (Казанская улица, 29)
Preserved
1877
Yevropeyskaya (European) Hotel
Mikhaylovskaya Street, corner with Nevsky Prospect
1/7 Mikhaylovskaya Street (Михайловская улица, 1/7)
Rebuilt (now "Grand Hotel Europe")
1877
Dagmar Hotel
9 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street
9 Sadovaya Street (Садовая улица, 9)
Preserved
1878
Palkin Restaurant
47 Nevsky Prospect
47 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 47)
Preserved, slightly reconstructed
1878
Anatoly Tchaikovsky's apartment
Corner of Nevsky Prospect and Novaya Avenue, 79/2
Corner of Nevsky Prospect Pushkinskaya Street, 79/2 (Угол Невского проспекта и Пушкинской улицы, дом 79/2)
Preserved
1879
Anatoly Tchaikovsky''s apartment
4 Nadezhdinskaya Street
4 Mayakovsky Street (Улица Маяковского, 4)
Preserved. Reconstructed inside
1879
Assembly of the Nobility
15 Nevsky Prospect
15 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 15)
Preserved, slightly reconstructed
1880
Saint Petrischule (a German school under Saint Peter's Lutheran Church)
22–24 Nevsky Prospect (outhouse), or entrance from 10 Bolshaya Konyushennaya
22–24 Nevsky Prospect Невский проспект, 22–24) or 10 Bolshaya Konyushennaya (Большая Конюшенная,10)
Preserved with alterations
1880
Mariya Vasilchikova's apartment
12 Dvortsovaya Embankment
12 Dvortsovaya Embankment (Дворцовая набережная, 12)
Preserved
1881–1883
Nikolay Konradi and Modest Tchaikovsky's apartment
28 Fontanka River Embankment, Orzhevsky's House
28 Fontanka River Embankment (Фонтанка, 28)
Preserved
1881–1882
Amaliya Litke's apartment
Corner of Ofitserskaya St, 60 and Anglysky Avenue, P. I. Kol'tsov's House
60 Decembrist Street, corner with Maklina Avenue (Улица Декабристов, 60, угол проспекта Маклина)
Preserved
From 1882
Mily Balakirev's apartment
7 Kolomenskaya Street, apt. 7
7 Kolomenskaya Street, apt. 7 (Коломенская улица, 7, кв.7)
Preserved
1883
Nikolay Konradi and Modest Tchaikovsky's apartment
15 Fontanka River Embankment, corner with Italyanskaya Street, Princess Urusova's House
19 Fontanka River Embankment, corner with Italyanskaya Street (Набережная реки Фонтанки, 19, угол Итальянской улицы)
Overbuilt
From 1883
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's apartment
18/2 Vladimirsky Avenue, corner with Kolokolnaya Street
18/2 Vladimirsky Avenue, corner with Kolokolnaya Street (Владимирский проспект, 18/2, угол Колокольной улицы)
Overbuilt
1884
Aleksandr Glazunov's apartment
8/10 Kazanskaya Street
8/10 Kazanskaya Street (Казанская улица, дом 8/10)
Overbuilt
1886–1888
Emiliya Pavlovskaya's apartment
Yekaterininsky Canal, by Lviny (Lion's) Bridge
99 Griboyedova Canal (Канал Грибоедова, 99)
Preserved
1886
Olga and Nikolay Tchaikovsky's apartment
9/31 Kryukov Canal, Sterligov's House by Torgovy Bridge
11/43 Kryukov Canal (Крюков канал, 11/43)
Preserved
1886,1893
Kononov's Hall (formerly Ruadze's)
Moyka River Embankment, corner with Kirpichny Lane, 1st Admiralty section
61 Moyka River Embankment (Набережная реки Мойки, 61)
Preserved (now occupied by Saint Petersburg State Telecommunications University)
1886
Marius Petipa's apartment
3 Saperny Lane
3 Saperny Lane (Саперный переулок, 3)
Preserved
1886
Eduard Nápravník's apartment
6 Kryukov Canal, apt. 72
6 Kryukov Canal, apt. 72 (Крюков канал, дом 6, кв. 72)
Preserved
1886
Anton Rubinstein's apartment
27 Troitskaya Street (bel étage)
27 Rubinstein Street (Улица Рубинштейна, 27)
Preserved
1887
Nikolay Kondratyev's apartment
34 Sergievskaya Street
34 Tchaikovsky Street (Улица Чайковского, 34)
Preserved
1887, 1892
"Grand Hotel"
18–20 Malaya Morskaya Street
18–20 Malaya Morskaya Street (Малая Морская, 18–20)
Preserved (now occupied by OAO "Giprorybflot")
1888–1892
Nikolay Konradi and Modest Tchaikovsky's apartment
24 Fontanka River Embankment, N. I. Yaf's House
24 Fontanka River Embankment (Набережная реки Фонтанки, 24)
Preserved
1880s
Concert tour agent Yakov Tset's apartment
40 Moyka River Embankment
40 Moyka River Embankment (Набережная реки Мойки, 40)
Preserved
1889
Demoute's Traktir (now Medved Restaurant)
27 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street
27 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street (Большая Конюшенная улица, 27)
Preserved
1890, 1893
Herman Laroche's apartment
10 Admiralty Embankment, N. O. Rukavishnikova's House
10 Admiralty Embankment, apt. 10 and 31. (Адмиралтейская набережная, 10, кв. 10 и 31)
Preserved
1890
Medea and Nikolay Figner's apartment
25 Moyka River Embankment
25 Moyka River Embankment (Набережная реки Мойки, 25)
Preserved
1890
Mitrofan Belyayev's apartment
50 Nikolayevskaya Street
50 Marata Street (Улица Марата, 50)
Preserved
1890
Rossia Hotel
58–60 Moyka River Embankment
58–60 Moyka River Embankment (Набережная реки Мойки, 58–60)
Preserved
1890
Conservatory Directorate
1–3 Teatralnaya Street
1–3 Zodchego Rossi Street (Улица Зодчего Росси, 1–3)
Preserved
1892
"Aquarium" entertainment theatre-garden
10 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue
10 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (Каменноостровский проспект, 10)
Rebuilt (now occupied by "Lenfilm" movie studios)
1893
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's apartment
11 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street (Chapel's building)
11 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street (Большая Конюшенная улица, 11)
Rebuilt
1893
Anna Merkling's apartment
14 Panteleymonovskaya Street
14 Pestelya Street (Улица Пестеля, 14)
Rebuilt
1893
Aleksey Apukhtin's apartment
26 Millionnaya Street
26 Millionnaya Street (Миллионная улица, 26)
Preserved
1893
Assembly of the Nobility
Mikhaylovskaya Square
2 Mikhaylovskaya Street, Iskusstv Square (Михайловская улица, 2. Площадь Искусств)
Preserved (now occupied by Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall)
1893
Leiner's Restaurant
18 Nevsky Prospect
18 Nevsky Prospect (Невский проспект, 18)
Preserved (now occupied by KFC fast food restaurant)
1893
Vera Butakova's apartment
4 Panteleymonovskaya Street
4 Pestelya Street (Улица Пестеля, 4)
Preserved
1893
Modest Tchaikovsky and Vladimir Davydov's apartment
Corner of Malaya Morskaya Street, 13 and Gorokhovaya Street, 8, F. I. Rotin's House (Vienna Restaurant)
Corner of Malaya Morskaya Street, 13 and Gorokhovaya Street, 8 (Угол Малой Морской 13 и Гороховой, 8)
Preserved. The apartment is now divided in two

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