About the book: 2001 / Passion by Tchaikovsky" is another work in the genre of “conversations” by Solomon Volkov, a famous musicologist and cultural critic. Russian readers are already familiar with his “Dialogues with Joseph Brodsky” and “The Cultural History of St. Petersburg.” The Tchaikovsky Passion, published for the first time in Russian, presents an unusual portrait of Tchaikovsky through the prism of the perception of the great choreographer George Balanchine. At the same time, the book is a unique self-portrait of Balanchine himself, revealing to the reader the unique hidden world of music..