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Matt Swenson
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Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 10:22 pm:
Russia was on the Julian calendar until 1922. When Tchaikovsky wrote his seasons, the Julian and Gregorian calendars were ~12 days off. The month of August in Russia ran into the second week of September according to our current calendar, hence August being the month of harvest to Tchaikovsky.
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