Where did Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky grow up and live?

📍Chaikovskogo Street 48, Klin, Moscow Oblast 141600, Russia

1892 – 1893

“I spent the last years of my life at my estate in Klin, outside Moscow, which I bought in 1892 and where I composed some of my final works. The Klin house was a wooden dacha surrounded by birch forest, and after the social pressures of Moscow and St Petersburg it provided the solitude I needed. I walked for hours every day regardless of weather — the walks were where the musical ideas came. The Pathétique Symphony and the Nutcracker were Klin works. I was a deeply private man whose inner life was in perpetual conflict with the public expectations of a famous composer, and Klin gave me the privacy I could not find in the cities. I died in St Petersburg in November 1893, nine days after the première of the Pathétique. The cause of death has been disputed ever since.”

👍 LovedThe birch forest walks that were the source of so many musical ideas. The privacy and solitude that the Klin dacha provided. The Russian landscape's particular melancholy that runs through everything I wrote.

👎 DislikedThe inner conflicts that my letters describe with unusual candour. The social world that required a performance of normality I found exhausting. The circumstances of my death that remain unclear.

Map showing where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived — Chaikovskogo Street 48, Klin, Moscow Oblast 141600, Russia

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's home at Chaikovskogo Street 48, Klin, Moscow Oblast 141600, Russia

📍 Street view today

Sources: Poznansky, A. Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man (1991), Schirmer; Holden, A. Tchaikovsky (1995), Bantam Press