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Nikolai Kondrat'evNikolai Dmitrievich Kondrat'ev (Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев) was a lawyer and friend of the composer, born in 1832. He was first introduced to Tchaikovsky in 1864 at the estate of Prince Aleksei Golitsyn in Trostinets, but became friendly with the composer in 1870, when Kondrat'ev brought his wife Mariia and daughter Nadezhda to Moscow for the winter. Tchaikovsky was also a frequent visitor to the family's estate at Nizy, near Kharkov (Kharkiv), where he worked on his opera The Oprichnik (1870–72), his Symphony No. 3 (1875), as well as his Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony (1871). Tchaikovsky dedicated his piano piece Rêverie du soir (No. 1 of the Six Pieces, Op. 19) to Kondrat'ev. Nikolai Kondrat'ev died at Aachen, Germany, on 3 October 1887. |