Editing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (section)

==Death==
{{See also|Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)}}
[[File:Санкт-Петербург, Тихвинское кладбище, надгробие П.И. Чайковского.JPG|thumb|Tchaikovsky's grave in [[Tikhvin Cemetery]] in [[Saint Petersburg]]]]
On 16/28 October 1893, Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere of his [[Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)|Sixth Symphony]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Symphony_No._6 | title=Symphony No. 6|website=tchaikovsky-research.net}}</ref> the ''Pathétique'', in Saint Petersburg. Nine days later, on 6 November, Tchaikovsky died there, aged 53. He was interred in [[Tikhvin Cemetery]] at the [[Alexander Nevsky Monastery]], near the graves of fellow-composers [[Alexander Borodin]], [[Mikhail Glinka]], and [[Modest Mussorgsky]]; later, [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Mily Balakirev]] were also buried nearby.<ref>Brown, ''The Final Years'', 487.</ref>

Tchaikovsky's death is attributed to [[cholera]], caused by drinking unboiled water at [[Literaturnoye Kafe (Saint Petersburg)|a local restaurant]].<ref>Brown, ''Man and Music'', 430–432; Holden, 371; Warrack, ''Tchaikovsky'', 269–270.</ref> In the 1980s in Britain, however, there was academic [[Theory of attempted suicide by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|speculation that he killed himself]], either with poison or by contracting cholera intentionally;<ref name="brhosu">Brown, ''Man and Music'', 431–435; Holden, 373–400.</ref> in the ''[[New Grove Dictionary of Music]]'', [[Roland John Wiley]] wrote: "the polemics over Tchaikovsky's death have reached an impasse ... . As for illness, problems of evidence offer little hope of satisfactory resolution: the state of diagnosis; the confusion of witnesses; disregard of long-term effects of smoking and alcohol. We do not know how Tchaikovsky died.<ref>[[Alexander Poznansky]] "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/746320 Tchaikovsky's Suicide: Myth and Reality]" [[19th Century Music]], Spring 1988</ref> We may never find out."<ref name="wiley_ng25169">Wiley, ''New Grove'' (2001), 25:169.</ref>