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Playwright, younger brother of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He graduated from law school, but devoted his whole life to art. Modest Ilyich wrote plays, translated Shakespeare's sonnets, he is the author of the libretto of his brother's operas The Queen of Spades and Iolanta. Being the closest friend of the great composer, he became his first biographer, as well as the founder of the Tchaikovsky Museum in Klin.