By Arya Roshanian In 1888, Modest Tchaikovsky wrote a letter to his brother Pyotr, the composer. Modest, a former law student and budding dramatist and critic, had recently been commissioned by ...

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 ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

During a Christmas Eve party and a young girl, Clara, being given a nutcracker doll by her godfather, Drosselmeyer. Later in the evening when Clara sleeps, she finds herself in the midst of the ...

Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov is out indefinitely after entering concussion protocol, the team confirmed Monday. Kochetkov left the ice after a collision with teammate Sean Walker ...

Minnesota Ballet's localized interpretation of the classic Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet has all the festive chaos of the original, with a historical setting that places the action at Duluth's ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such ...

But the true star of Robert Wiene’s silent classic is the German Expressionist set design, whose jarring angles and dramatic shadows enhance its tale of murder and madness.

Tchaikovsky’s Wife, written and directed by the talented Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov, tells the story of Antonina Miliukova, who married Tchaikovsky in 1877 and then went mad because she ...

The Philadelphia Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker — a dazzling holiday classic featuring more than 170 dancers and many other artists who… ...