Tchaikovsky (1936) is a documentary-biographical novel, a novel without fiction: a creatively imagined biography that strictly adheres to facts, yet highlights them with the freedom characteristic of novelists. The whole life of Tchaikovsky is the coexistence of life’s downfall and creative ascent. And both the mask and the desire to seem like everyone else at the same time; helplessness and defenselessness in the face of the real world…