Klin - Tchaikovsky's House!!!

Today was a wish come true for this music teacher...a trip to Tchaikovsky's house in Klin!!!  It was so amazing to walk where he walked, and see his home.  Everything in his area (not the servants' areas) were original to the way he had them.  The pictures on the wall were exactly as he had them hung, his desk, piano, all were as he would have used them!

The entrance he would have used...and the one that WE USED!!!

The front of the house.  The front porch opens right up to the dining room, and so on hot days they'd eat outside.

One of Tchaikovsky's conducting batons.  This was given to him as a gift.  The handle was real silver.

His top hat and gloves!

Tchaikovsky loved nature more and more as he grew older.  This is one of the paths he would have walked twice a day.

Here is the table where he read newspapers and had his tea.  If he spoke to people in the morning, he would spend the day editing his music.  If he did not speak, then they knew he would spend the day composing.

At this desk Tchaikovsky did all of his editing and final proofs of his compositions.  It was right by his piano.  Here is where he did the final proofreading of The Nutcracker before it was published!

This is the piano he would have played on.  It was a gift.  He spent his evenings entertaining guests in this parlor, and often played duets.  

Me in the parlor with his piano!

In the evenings, he and his guests sat here and read aloud to each other.

Tchaikovsky's bed.

And even his slippers!

THIS IS IT!!! The table in his bedroom that he wrote Symphony Number 6, and many of this other works.  He liked to be able to look out the window into his gardens.

A statute of Tchaikovsky with his house in the background.