Most of what we know about Tchaikovsky's personal life is gleaned from his letters - unsurprisingly, since around 5000 of them have survived. He was a dutiful, passionate and extremely self-conscious ...

There are both classic and trendy options for girl names that start with “Z.” “‘Z’ has become a kind of turbocharger letter,” ...

His later opera Ruslan and Ludmila, based on a poem by Pushkin, incorporated musical ideas which served his successors well: ...