Letters from beyond - стр. 5
Kshesinskaya got up from her chair, went to the piano and began to lightly play melodies from Chopin's nocturnes.
– We really want to, – Robert was alarmed, – please continue. We are listening to you carefully. So the tsar persuaded you to seduce the composer Tchaikovsky. How could he convince you and what reason did he have for this?
– Very simple. He promised me all the title roles in the upcoming ballet season. How could I refuse such a gift?
– Well, for what purpose did he go for it?
Matilda stopped playing the piano for a moment and looked at her audience with a smile.
– Our cunning king wished to kill two birds with one stone at once. Firstly, to defame me to Niky and separate us, and secondly, he really hoped that after my hugs and charms, Tchaikovsky would get a taste and take the path of normal relations with the female sex.
The audience looked at each other in shock.
– Why are you so surprised? The whole empire knew about my love affair with Niky, and there were always bad rumors about Tchaikovsky's strange behavior.
Kshesinskaya finished playing Chopin and began to type the notes of the well-known "Chizhik-Pyzhik".
Do you remember this crazy song? Pyotr Ilyich composed it when he put on the black and yellow uniform of the law school, which was located on the Fontanka.
– And what, they drank vodka in this school? Josephine chuckled.
Kshesinskaya laughed ironically.
– You can immediately see Zhozya that you were born in the era of Marxism-Leninism. Then on the Fontanka, in the basement, the tavern was where the future lawyers would go. True, Tchaikovsky hardly drank vodka, but the song about the fawn-fawn took root there.
– Well, who is to blame that you, Malya, were born in the time of Tsar Pea and remember the Old Testament details? – Josephine said with mock resentment, provoking Kshesinskaya to more significant memories.
– I remember a lot of things, – the former prima said meaningfully.
– Okay, we are well aware of your intimate relationship with members of the royal family. Better tell about how you seduced Tchaikovsky?
– Very simple. Early in the morning I went to the maestro's apartment and immediately applied the most reliable method.
– Which?
– Women's cry, turning into hysterics. Works flawlessly on men.
Yes, but you need a good reason to cry. Tchaikovsky himself could not offend you so much as to bring you to hysteria.
– Of course not.
– Well, what caused you to cry?
– Not what, but who. Petipa. Marius Ivanovich Petipa. This paddling pool always pursued me, found fault, deliberately did not put me in the first roles. Especially when the heir to the throne himself was sitting in the imperial box with his mother, the queen.