On 9/21 January 1889, Tchaikovsky wrote to Yuliya Shpazhinskaya from Frolovskoye: "Have you ever read Chekhov? This young man, in my view, is likely to become a major force in literature. He became personally acquainted with the writer during the autumn of 1887, at Modest Tchaikovsky's home in Saint Petersburg, and the following year they met again in Moscow. Tchaikovsky was introduced to Chekhov's work in April 1887, when together with Nikolay Kashkin he read the story Laymen, and he was so impressed by the writer's talent that he sent a letter to the editor of New Time, the newspaper in which Chekhov's story had appeared (this letter did not reach Chekhov and has unfortunately not been preserved).
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