1. Petr Il’ich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) Photos: as a teenager in 1863, as a young man, and at middle age

2. The Tchaikovsky Family, 1848: (left to right): Petr, mother Alexandra (née d’Assier), sister Alexandra (seated), half-sister Zinaida (standing), brother Nikolai (standing), brother Ippolit (seated), father Ilya (not in photo, twin brothers Anatoly and Modest)

3. Anton Rubenstein (1829-94); St. Petersburg Conservatory (founded, 1862; photos, 1913 and Today)

4. Nikolai Rubenstein (1835-81); Moscow Conservatory of Music (founded, 1866; photo, 1940); Great Hall and Small Hall

5. Tchaikovsky and Antonina Miliukova

6. Tchaikovsky’s patron, Nadezhda von Meck

7. Original cast of Sleeping Beauty (photo, 1890) at the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg

8. Tsar Alexander III, patron and strong supporter of Tchaikovsky

9. Carnegie Hall, New York City

10. Tchaikovsky at Cambridge for Honorary Doctorate, 1893

11. Tchaikovsky House-Museum, Klin (Moscow oblast’)

12. Tchaikovsky Grave, Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

13. Tchaikovsky Portrait by Nikolai Kuznetsov (1850-1929), 1893

14. Links to Tchaikovsky’s music played in class Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”): entire: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink, Conductor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeErh HHmf7whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeErh HHmf7w Symphony No. 4, last movement, fantasy on Russian folksong “In the meadow was a birch tree” (Vo pole berizin’ka stoiala”): Chicago Symphony, Daniel Barenboim, Conductor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHj- eekdNU Marche Slave (Slavonic March: Славянский марш) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSf8 uF5UE-Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSf8 uF5UE-U Russian National Orchestra, Oct. 2005 Live performance from the Moscow Conservatory Mikhail Pletnev, Conductor Finale: Moderato assai-Allegro vivo From Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvTY PLCQ_18https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvTY PLCQ_18 The Year 1812, Festival Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82l3r EQSWkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82l3r EQSWk

15. Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow (1903 and Today)

16. YouTube clips of interest: A clip about the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=UeE4szjJQMkhttp://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=UeE4szjJQMk Piano Concerto #1 B Flat Minor played by Van Cliburn at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- M7M4UoqBpA (1 st movement)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- M7M4UoqBpA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv yx569SWyI (2 nd movementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv yx569SWyI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7 MAriotZyE (3 rd movement)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7 MAriotZyE