Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of her six children. He had a good ...

“Swan Lake” by Peter I. Tchaikovsky is the most famous ballet of all time. Since its world premiere in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow there have been countless interpretations of this ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” tells the story of Odette, a young princess, who is cursed by an evil sorcerer named Baron Von Rothbart to turn into a swan. One day, Odette encounters ...

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