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| Genre/Form: | Biographies |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; P I Chaı̆kovskiı̆; Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexander Poznansky |
| ISBN: | 019816596X 9780198165965 |
| OCLC Number: | 34412592 |
| Description: | xvii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Alexander Poznansky. |
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Abstract:
death there have been rumours that it was not accidental. It is alleged that Tchaikovsky was forced to commit suicide in order to avoid the scandal and disgrace of being unmasked as a homosexual. Alexander Poznansky is the first Western scholar to have gained access to the Tchaikovsky archives in Klin, Russia. He here provides much hitherto unknown documentary material - memoirs, diary entries, letters, and newspaper reports - and adds his own commentary on the status of.
homosexuality in nineteenth-century Russia and on various conspiracy theories that have been advanced to account for Tchaikovsky's death. His conclusion is that there is no factual evidence to support the notion that Tchaikovsky's death was brought about by anything other than cholera.
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