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Tchaikovsky and Antonina

Tchaikovsky on His Marriage

There's no doubt that for some months on end I was a bit
insane, and only now, when I'm completely recovered, have I
learned to relate objectively to everything which I did during
my brief insanity. That man who in May took it into his head to
marry Antonina Ivanova, who during June wrote a whole
opera as though nothing had happened, who in July married,
who in September fled from his wife, who in November railed at Rome and so on—that man wasn't I, but another Pyotr
Ilyich.

—Letter to Tchaikovsky's brother Anatoly, written in Florence,
February 18, 1878.

A middle aged man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark suit and holding a book, sits next to a young woman in a black dress wearing her hair up on her head

Tchaikovsky on his marriage

{{There's no doubt that for some months on end I was a bit insane, and only now, when I'm completely recovered, have I learned to relate objectively to everything which I did during my brief insanity. That man who in May took it into his head to marry Antonina Ivanova, who during June wrote a whole opera as though nothing had happened, who in July married, who in September fled from his wife, who in November railed at Rome and so on—that man wasn't I, but another Pyotr Ilyich.}}