Jews attributed an abomination to Tchaikovsky

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Recently, the great Russian composer has not only been accused of terrible sins, but his very world cultural significance has been trying to put in quotation marks.

Coming closer to the matter, I will make a reservation that there are only two charges - "non-traditional sexual orientation" and "suicide". Let's look at both of them.

The first accusation is based on the diary entries of Pyotr Ilyich and some "letters".

With the diary, everything is quite simple.

For the first time, as a separate book, his diary entries were published thanks to the Musical Sector publishing house in 1923 in Petrograd. The book contained a link to the three-volume memoirs of the composer's brother, Modest Ilyich, published in Leipzig, entitled “The Life of P. I. Tchaikovsky , 1900-1902. This edition also included the diaries of Pyotr Ilyich.

Speaking of diary entries covering the period from June 1873 to May 1891, it is easy to note their brevity and dryness.

Typical entry (April 6, 1886): “Rain. I went to town. First I got to the Armenian Church, then to the Zion Cathedral. In the first I was struck by the news of the spectacle and the ugly singing; in the second, I saw the Exarch and heard him preach. I had breakfast at home with Vasily Vasilievich. Guests. He went to his room. Kolya Peresleni, Karnovich. A visit by a whole company to the Goncharovs. Returning home, I walked with Panya and Kolya through the gallery. Pigkin. Was reading…"

Another entry: “Classes. Mikhailov is a singer. Breakfast with Kolya. I went to get Bobin's portrait. Houses. Took a box at the Maly Theater for Alexei and S. … Concert. Symphony by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov's overture, Shcherbachev's little things, etc. Rain. I'm at Palkin's. The appearance of Glazunov, Dyutsh, etc. I am with them. Champagne. Late home."

And in this spirit the whole diary. No worries, reflections, details of his spiritual life. There is not even a line dedicated to intimate life in them.

Later reprints of the Diaries (in particular, the 2000 edition) contain an addition that was not available in the 1923 publication. This is an article by a close friend of the composer, Nikolai Kashkin, “From the memoirs of P. Tchaikovsky”, written in 1918 and included in the book from an unknown source.

In it, Kashkin talks about "a very important episode" in Tchaikovsky's life, which became "the moment of a sharp turning point in its course, after which both life itself and the work of Pyotr Ilyich took a new course. This episode was the marriage of Pyotr Ilyich to Antonina Ivanovna Milyukova.

Only after his marriage did that hopelessly sad fold lay in his face, which then left him only in moments of especially vigorous animation or in even rarer moments of a short return of that sincere, half-childish gaiety that was previously inherent in his nature."

Kashkin reports another episode. Already in the Klin period of the composer's life, Tchaikovsky, who had never previously spoken about his relationship with his wife, asked Kashkin to read her last letter.

Here is how he describes it: “The letter was written well and seemed to contain some kind of hot requests, as it was full of exclamation and question marks. When I had read the letter to the end and looked at Tchaikovsky, in response to my silent question, he also turned to me with the question: "Well, tell me what the letter says about?" It was only then that I realized that there was no definite, real content in the letter."

And it's all. We will not find anything of the kind written in the diaries personally by Tchaikovsky.

P. I. Tchaikovsky with his wife A. I. Tchaikovskaya (Milyukova)

The situation with the so-called "letters" is much more complicated. There are no originals or copies of these letters. The source where they supposedly can be located is not indicated either. However, in 1980on the pages of the New York weekly "New American", whose editor was Sergei Dovlatov, there was an article by a certain Alexandra Orlova, who supposedly saw everything with her own eyes.

From the book “Jews in the Culture of the Russian Abroad” we learn that Orlova (Shneerson) Alexandra Anatolyevna, who emigrated to the USA in 1979, is a specialist “on Russian composers of the 19th century. - comes from the Shneerson family, the ancestor of which was Shneur Zalman. Among the ancestors are prominent representatives of Russian-Jewish culture. In emigration, she continued her research and publication of materials about Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky. " Strange parallels. In addition, it is known that her articles were published in the magazines "Continent", "Grani", in the newspapers "New Russian Word", "New American", "Vestnik" and others. Orlova's last book is Tchaikovsky Without Retouching (New York, 2001).

It is interesting that in Russia Mrs. Orlova's rich literary experience was only interested in the leader of the tabloid press - the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets, who had repeatedly published Orlov's libel. The data in it have no links, abound with forgeries, and "Orlova claimed that all these facts became known to her from Alexander Voitov, a graduate of the school of jurisprudence, who, in turn, was told by the widow of Nikolai Jacobi himself." More precisely, "one grandmother said."

A. A. Orlova (Schneerson)

Here is an example of a typical supposedly “letter”: “1876-28-09 to Brother Modest. "Imagine this! I even made a trip to the village the other day to see Bulatov, whose house is nothing more than a pederastic brothel. Not only was I there, but I fell in love like a cat with his coachman !!! So, you are absolutely right when you say in your letter that there is no way to resist, in spite of any vows, from your weaknesses."

Anyone familiar with the letters of Pyotr Ilyich will say that the author of this dirty fake did not even bother to adapt his cooking ("like a cat to his coachman !!!") to the composer's style. Not to mention the fact that no one has ever seen the "letter" itself.

People who are versed in the manners and customs of Russian society of that time will confirm that such passions were not only not peculiar to him, but they simply had no place. Tchaikovsky was no exception to the rule.

By the way, he was a very busy person. For a person of this magnitude and, as they would say now, “busy work schedule”, it was simply unthinkable what is now understood as personal life.

Since 1866 he has been a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Premieres of "Voevoda" (1869), "Undine" (1869), "Oprichnik" (1874), "Blacksmith Vakula" (1876), three symphonies (1866, 1872 and 1875).), the ballet "Swan Lake" (1877), fantasy overtures ("Romeo and Juliet" (1869)), the First Piano Concerto (1875), music to Ostrovsky's fairy tale "The Snow Maiden" (1873.), a cycle of piano pieces "The Four Seasons" (1876) and other chamber works and romances. The "Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony" (1871), the first Russian textbook for conservatories written by a Russian author, was published. And that's not all.

Since the end of 1877, Tchaikovsky has been working in Spain, Italy, France, Germany.

In the second half of the 1880s, he began his career as a conductor. First in Russia, and then abroad; as a performer of his own works, he visits Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, England, Switzerland. In 1885, Tchaikovsky was elected director of the Moscow branch of the Petersburg Chamber Musical Society, and a year later - an honorary member of the Russian Musical Society.

His trip to the United States was also triumphant, in the spring of 1891. In 1893, Tchaikovsky was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Cambridge in England. “I would like with all the strength of my soul for my music to spread, so that the number of people who love it, find consolation and support in it, would increase,” he wrote. Considering the means of transportation of that time, Tchaikovsky had only work and sleep at his disposal. And since 1892, Pyotr Ilyich moved to Klin, moving away from the outside world.

Only a strong-willed personality can withstand such a tense life. Therefore, the newest speculations about "psychasthenic properties of his character", susceptibility to hypochondria ("AiF" No. 49 dated December 3, 2003) Tchaikovsky in a letter to Vel. Book. Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov: "A musician, if he wants to grow to the height that he can count on in terms of talent, must educate a craftsman in himself." The hypochondriac is unable to master the craft well. But when a psychiatrist wants to talk about the "sensuality" of a great composer, he should at least become an art critic.

During his Italian period, Tchaikovsky described visits to various local museums. In the collection of the Capitoline Museum, Tchaikovsky chooses the sculpture "The Dying Gladiator", in which there is perhaps no sensuality at all. In the Borghese gallery, overflowing with images of sensuality, he is interested in completely different paintings - Raphael's portraits of Caesar Borgia and Pope Sixtus V.

The famous conductor Alexander Gauk said that Tchaikovsky cannot be played in a “sentimental manner, that the most terrible betrayal is the interpretation of his music as pleasantly refined and feminine, that the bliss of his music has nothing to do with pseudo-sentimentality. Dramaticism and a heightened sense of excitement - that's what you need to achieve when performing Tchaikovsky."

His daily diary entries: daily liturgical circle, great and ordinary holidays, in Russia and abroad, church fasts. He is comfortable in the church, singing causes tears (he is upset at the falsity of the singers), communicates with the clergy. For him, as for many Russian people, visiting a church is both a part of everyday life and a spiritual core. Fixes what the sky, sea, weather are like now. He writes about flowers - and the scores of his ballets-fairy tales come to mind.

A reverent attitude towards the homeland is a remarkable trait of Pyotr Ilyich. Yet he was a believer. And not at all licentious and immoral. Loose people are not capable of creating masterpieces. For example, despite the originality of views on the personality of P. I. Tchaikovsky, the famous choreographer George Balanchine (Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, who died in New York in 1983), saw a deeply religious composer in Tchaikovsky. “Balanchine himself was a believer and insisted:“One cannot jump into faith like into a pool. It is necessary to enter into it gradually, like into the ocean. This should be done from childhood. " Balanchine sought and found the same religiosity in Tchaikovsky. " (Volkov Solomon. Tchaikovsky Passion: Conversations with George Balanchin. M., Publishing house Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2001)

Remembers M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov about the Tiflis trip with Tchaikovsky: “And how shy he was! He is summoned to the stage, and he hid behind the backstage scenery. I shout to him: "Petya, come on, go, they call, it's inconvenient!" - but he does not give a voice. I had to announce that the composer had left the theater, but he got tangled up in the wings, dropped something, almost disfigured it, the machinists were pulling it out …”(“Moskovsky Zhurnal”No. 10, 2005)

By the way, Tchaikovsky never divorced his wife, despite the fact that she early discovered signs of mental illness. The diagnosis is paranoia. It was natural for Tchaikovsky to contain her. After his death, there was also money left, with which Modest Ilyich, the composer's brother, paid for her treatment in a psychiatric hospital. She died in a hospital on Udelnaya in 1917.

Tchaikovsky was well known by both Chekhov, who had a medical practice, and Tolstoy, who fiercely hated the newfangled Western homosexuals. And no one, not a word, not a hint, said about what modern "researchers" are now talking about.

In October 1893, the premiere of the Sixth Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky took place in St. Petersburg, and 10 days later the author was gone.

The second is connected with this event, the so-called. Tchaikovsky's "accusation" of suicide. What is typical for unconfirmed rumors, there are two versions: the composer broke down, unable to withstand "his depravity" and self-accusations of conscience, and - the so-called. "Court of honor", which is also divided into two branches of conjecture.

Both versions, as one might guess, were offered to the public by Mrs. Orlova. The first version is easily refuted by the testimony of the doctors who took part in the treatment of Tchaikovsky - L. B. Bertenson, A. K. Zander, N. N. Mamonov. They all had solid medical experience. Everyone was also well acquainted with the work of Koch, who discovered the infectious nature of cholera in 1883.

In the Nikolaev hospital, where L. B. Bertenson and A. K. Zander, in 1892 a cholera department was opened and there was a bacteriological laboratory. It should be added that in the fall of 1893 an epidemic of cholera broke out in St. Petersburg, and vibrios were found even in the water supply system of the Winter Palace. On the day of Tchaikovsky's death, 68 cases of cholera were registered in St. Petersburg. Together with Tchaikovsky, seven more people died from her.

But the second version deserves close attention. Not because of her extravagance and far-fetchedness, but because of the intended connection with the royal family. Moreover, even the supporter of the “pederastic theory” A. N. Poznansky, an employee of Yale University, author of a book that claims to be a monograph: “Death of Tchaikovsky. Legends and Facts”.

It is known that the lush flourishing of Russian culture in the 19th century owes much to the patronage of the members of the Romanov family, and, in particular, to Emperor Alexander III.

A letter from Emperor Alexander III to K. P. Pobedonostsev from June 2, 1881 has survived:

“I am sending you 3000 rubles for transfer to Tchaikovsky. Tell him that he can not return this money. Alexander "(" Russian World "No. 1, 2004) In addition, in 1888, the emperor appointed Tchaikovsky a pension of 3 thousand rubles. And this is only a tiny part of what was done in general.

PI Tchaikovsky wrote that he, "so treated kindly by the emperor", "would look ungrateful", personally participating in the opening of the World Exhibition in Paris, timed to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Great French Revolution - "celebrations that His Majesty cannot sympathize with. "(Letter to F. McCar, January 13, 1889)

In 1887, PI Tchaikovsky turned to the Emperor with a personal letter, in which he petitioned for the allocation of funds to complete the construction of the theater building in Tiflis. According to the memoirs of M. M. Ippolitova-Ivanova, "the funds were released, and the theater was completed …"

Much is indebted to Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov, one of the founders of the Pushkin House, the man who headed the Russian Academy of Sciences for thirty years, and the creator of the Moscow Conservatory. Konstantin Romanov was known as a poet who wrote under the kryptonym K. R., playwright (the play "King of the Jews" was translated into 19 languages), translator ("Hamlet"), actor, musician and composer.

Tchaikovsky wrote six romances based on his poems; such as “I opened the window”, “The lights were already extinguished in the room”, “First date”, “Serenade”.

Strange coincidence, but after the death of K. R. his memory was defiled in the same way as the honor of Tchaikovsky. The same dirty fabrications about pederasty. Orlova's characteristic revelations that the tsar himself ordered Tchaikovsky to die after learning about his allegedly "unconventional connection" with K. R. Meanwhile, K. R. was a diligent family man, a deeply religious person, had 9 children, was the chief head of military educational institutions, "the father of all cadets", raised a son who died heroically at the front, and three more who were executed by the Bolsheviks in Alapaevsk.

Family of Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov

All this, of course, was not taken into account. The main thing is to discredit the royal family in any way. And Tchaikovsky, of course, fell under this wheel. Some people did not like the patriotic works of P. I. Tchaikovsky.

In 1860-1870, Tchaikovsky established strong ties with the composers of The Mighty Handful (expression of the musical critic V. V. Stasova) - M. A. Balakirev and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, as well as with Stasov himself. Balakirev and Stasov repeatedly suggested to Tchaikovsky the subjects for his programmatic works. Tchaikovsky shared his creative plans with Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov; Rimsky-Korsakov willingly accepted Tchaikovsky's advice on music theory. An exchange of recordings of folk songs took place between them.

Rumors that the Purgold sisters spread slander against Tchaikovsky are absolutely groundless. One of them, Nadezhda Nikolaevna, was the wife of Rimsky-Korsakov since 1873.

But on the other hand, the well-known conflict of the Rubinstein brothers, representatives of the traditional, Western direction in music, with the composition of the "Mighty Handful" raises many questions.

A. Rubinstein, 1889

Anton Rubinstein's activities abounded in conflicts with the court circles, as well as with the composer A. N. Serov and members of the "Mighty Handful", who preferred the Russian direction in creativity. “Despite the fact that Rubinstein was baptized as a child, he retained a Jewish national identity. Soon after the creation of the Society for the Spread of Education among Jews in Russia, he became a member. In the early 1890s. Rubinstein wanted to write an opera, the protagonist of which would be a modern Jew, proud and mocking, but not a single libretto satisfied him, and he invited his Jewish students to implement this plan”(“Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia”).

Valuable characteristic - "proud and mocking" - the complete opposite of Tchaikovsky's inner appearance. This is how bad taste can be found now on the Internet: “At first, Tchaikovsky studied in the classroom rather casually. Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein drew attention to the frivolity of the young man. It is said that he spoke to the young musician quite decisively and suggested to Tchaikovsky "either study hard or leave the classes." From that day on, Pyotr Ilyich began to study with great perseverance, which did not leave him all his life. " That's how - he said once - and Tchaikovsky understood. And the future genius did not have to flog. Surprising even.

Obviously, the fact that in 1944 the Leningrad Conservatory, at the origins of which A. Rubinstein stood, was named after N. Rimsky-Korsakov, was also a mortal offense. The Moscow Conservatory, where N. Rubinstein was director and professor of piano, was named after P. Tchaikovsky.

Well, I'm sure that time will put everything in its place. Or already. And one of the evidence of this was the P. I. Tchaikovsky, gathering hundreds of musicians from different countries in Moscow.