Evans, E: Tchaikovsky (Classic Reprint) -

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Excerpt from Tchaikovsky IT is possible that the family from which Tchaikovsky sprang may have had a Polish origin, but in the absence of. Any documentary evidence, the composer himself insisted with great firmness on his purely Russian nationality. His great-grandfather, Feodor Afanassievich Tchaikovsky, was an officer of Cossacks in the reign of Peter the Great, and fought in the battle of Poltava. His grandfather, Peter Feodorovich Tchaikovsky, was a nobleman in the government of Kazan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.