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Tchaikovsky expresses his religious perspective in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck on 23 November/5 December 1877: | Tchaikovsky expresses his religious perspective in a letter to Nadezhda von Meck on 23 November/5 December 1877: | ||
{{Quote | {{Quote|text=However, conviction is one thing, and instinct and feeling another. Whilst I deny an eternal afterlife, it is with indignation that I reject at the same time the monstrous thought that I shall never see again some loved ones who are now dead. In spite of the triumphant force of my convictions, I shall never reconcile myself to the thought that my mother, whom I so loved and who was such a wonderful person, has disappeared forever and that I will never be able to tell her that even after twenty-three years of separation I still love her the same|author=Pyotr Tchaikovsky|source=http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/en/people/index.html}} | ||
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A letter to Mrs von Meck on 16/28 February–17 February/1 March 1879, in which he tells her of his impressions of reading the scene in The Brothers Karamazov where Father Zosima has to comfort a woman who has lost all her children, shows that this was a question which Tchaikovsky often thought about: | A letter to Mrs von Meck on 16/28 February–17 February/1 March 1879, in which he tells her of his impressions of reading the scene in The Brothers Karamazov where Father Zosima has to comfort a woman who has lost all her children, shows that this was a question which Tchaikovsky often thought about: | ||