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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer (1840–1893).

Born May 7th, 1840 in Votkinsk.

Died November 6th, 1893 at 53 years old in Malaya Morskaya Street, 13 (cholera).

Occupations
autobiographer, choreographer, composer, conductor, diarist, librettist, music critic, music educator, pianist, translator, university teacher

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder