tell him that his services
will no longer be required.
From the Chancellor of his Majesty's
Financial Ministry.
A refusal by the government to buy
the Lyubavo-Romensk roadway.
The stupidity of the government
amazes me.
Mister Pahulsky to see you.
What is your full name,
Mister Pahulsky?
- Vladislav Albertovich.
- My daughter, Julia.
- Your bags are in the carriage?
- My baggage is with me.
I will go over the conditions again.
In addition to playing in my trio,
you will have some other duties.
You will read aloud to me,
play croquet and billiards with me,
accompany us
when we walk.
The salary is 100 rubles a month
and your board and room.
And if we are compatible,
there will be trips abroad
which should be interesting for you
since you're a cultivated man.
Send this to the bank
and have the carriage brought around.
Do these conditions suit you?
You're much too kind, Madame.
How could that conservatory tyrant,
Mister Rubinstein, let you go?
Nikolai Grigorievich is sending
his regards.
Is that all? I don't believe you.
He told me I might do as I wished.
Though he added he wasn't advising me
to accept this position
because it's boring to do a job
that one doesn't wish to do
and not to be able to do
what you want.
Have you ever seen any position
in which you could always do exactly
what you wanted to do?
July, please see if they have
prepared the room for Mr. Pahulsky.
Of course, mother.
I'll hear you play this evening
when I return.
By the way, with whom
have you studied?
The violin with Professor Grzhymali
and composition with Tchaikovsky.
I wish you to play some Tchaikovsky
tonight.
Mesdames, Messieurs...
I'm very moved
to be once again in Moscow.
I will never forget
the magnificent Moscow audiences.
I would like to sing for you now
a song by Monsieur Tchaikovsky.
Madame von Meck's carriage!
What prevented them
from uniting their two lives?
I'm not sure if it's true,
but I've heard that the marriage was
prevented by Nikolai Grigorievich.
Does he have such enormous
influence over Mister Tchaikovsky?
All Moscow's music life
is under his domination,
and Pyotr Ilyich and he
are great friends.
Desiree certainly looks much older,
don't you think?
What a voice!
It's truly extraordinary!
Her voice, yes.
But to think that you'd have trailed
behind that voice all over Europe!
We've already had enough with
Turgenev and his Madame Viardot.
Our grandchildren will thank me
for having saved, for Russia,
the composer Tchaikovsky.
In the meantime you may thank me.
Without me, you'd be now in the place
of her husband, Padilla, poor idiot.
Go on, thank me.
- Thank you.
- Don't mention it.
Stop here.
What's wrong?
You'd better go on alone to the club.
No, I won't let you go home now.
Let me be! I'm a grown-up man,
for heaven's sake.
Will you please let me run
my own life!
Right now I would like to be alone,
with my troubles.
Petya!
Alyosha!
Wake up!
Please, come and sit with me.
I'm frightened.
I'm all right now...
You can go back to bed.
Gentlemen!
He can go to the devil, this Cui.
Come and see
what Laroche has written.
"Swan Lake", as the other works
of the composer Tchaikovsky,
reveals his customary
deficiency to us once again.
This is the poverty of his creative
imagination
resulting in monotonous
themes and melodies."
To the devil with Laroche!
And he calls himself his friend.
Why, this theme alone is worth
any in the world...
- Good afternoon, Professor.
- Good afternoon.
I'm very flattered to see
that you remember me.
Oh yes, of course. What are you
doing now? Where are you?
Circumstances did not allow me
to finish my studies
and I've been forced to accept
a position with Madame von Meck.
Oh, von Meck...
For whom I've done a piano
arrangement of "The Opritchnik"?
Yes, that's the one.
Then perhaps... you know
why she hasn't...
Oh, a check. It's just in time.
I really must confess
I was beginning to