Some heavy hitter politcos from the School of Jurisprudence where Tchaikovsky studied as a young man ordered him to kill himself or else they would reveal his sexuality to the Tzar. They thought they were ‘helping’ him preserve his reputation. Tchaikovsky should have told them to go to hell. The Tzar would have worked something out and not exile the most world famous Russian next to Tolstoy.
Cholera takes much longer to develop then it supposedly did in a week with the ‘drank unboiled water’ story that his brother Modest and his doctors fabricated. Since the fall of the Soviet Union more evidence surfaced.
Conspiracy or not. Tchaikovsky’s death will remains a mystery. Assumed that evidence will resurface, there’re still some parties will argue the case.
Let see now, Cholera was once made London suffered under it’s wrath. I do hope that Moscow/St. Petersburg at that time got good sewer systems and clean water.