Love does not come calling as Tchaikovsky ties the knot
Jun 10, 2021
2 minutes
From today I seriously intend to enter into lawful matrimony with anyone at all’. Tchaikovsky made this apparently flippant comment to his brother Modest in 1876, when he was 36. Unfortunately, he wasn’t joking. On 18 July the following year, just 11 months later, Tchaikovsky married Antonina Milyukova, a woman eight years his junior, at a Moscow ceremony with most of his
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