About the book: 2021 / Nina Berberova, one of the most famous writers and memoirists of the first wave of emigration, writes a fictionalized biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the 1950s. She does not remain silent about the composer's secret life, but remains tactful and faithful to the facts. Berberova creates a portrait of a living person, a portrait without affection. An eternal foreigner, she talks about the Russian composer as if she had never left Russia…