Musicology Annotation << Back P.I. Tchaikovsky in the Mirror of His Private Library Ada G. Aynbinder The article covers the research of the Thaikovsky’s private library as independent historical source. There were fixed composer’s personality traits and many facts of his creative biography which were unknown or were mythologized because of historical circumstances and incomplete range of sources. Key words: Russian music of the 19th century, library, Tchaikovsky, Schopenhauer, Glazunov, Gogol, Pushkin, I. F Schiller. E-mail: gdmch@dol.ru