Catherine D. Bowen, Barbara V. Meck

"Beloved Friend" The Story of Tchaikowsly and Nadejda von Meck

New York: Random House, 1937.

Used.

Item #4981

Hardcover
484 pp., illustrated

The letters explore the lives of Tchaikowsky, Madame von Meck, the Rubensteins, and other people that significantly affected their lives.
Their lives, as revealed by the letters, were traumatic. Like Dostoevsky's books, truly tragic. If you like Dostoevsky, you will definitely love this book. These letters were willed by von Meck to her favorite grandson Vladimir (Volichka), and his wife Barbara von Meck corresponded with Bower to publish these letters interspersed with biographical information.
Both of them hid one crucial fact from each other, which invariably colored their whole lives and also their interactions with each other. And yet, they were united by bonds of very touching friendship which long ago became such a habit that they couldn't live apart.

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