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Tchaikovsky on His Marriage
There's no doubt that for some months on end I was a bit insane, and only now, when I'm completely recovered, have I learned to relate objectively to everything which I did during my brief insanity. That man who in May took it into his head to marry Antonina Ivanova, who during June wrote a whole opera as though nothing had happened, who in July married, who in September fled from his wife, who in November railed at Rome and so on&mdash;that man wasn't I, but another Pyotr Ilyich.

&mdash;Letter to Tchaikovsky's brother Anatoly, written in Florence, February 18, 1878.