Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer - Hardcoverby Simon Morrison (Author) A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the