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Available
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Publication
Orchard Books (1995), 1 pages
Description
Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.
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LibraryThing member MarthaL
Named Eugenia, after Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, the eleven year old narator who has recently had a birthday narates as if writing in a journal her families involvement with Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky. Her father is a wealthy man who owns the railroad. He and his family like the composer have
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come from Russia. There the family lived in a 40 room mansion but only on the first floor for the roof had fallen in. Although the story is fictitious it is based on true espisodes in Tchaikovsky's life. He did travel to America and go by train to various cities by train. He did keep a journal. Show Less
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1994
Physical description
1 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
0531068943 / 9780531068946