The text Vsevolozhsky selected was "The Story of a Nutcracker," an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann.
Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theatres, hired Tchaikovsky to write a double-bill program that included both an opera and a ballet following the popularity of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890. Iolanta would be the opera. Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa, with whom he had previously worked on The Sleeping Beauty, would once more cooperate on the ballet. The text Vsevolozhsky selected was "The Story of a Nutcracker," an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann. For the two-act ballet, Hoffmann's story's (and Dumas' adaptation of it) storyline was considerably condensed. The primary plot of Hoffmann's tale includes a lengthy flashback story called "The Tale of the Hard Nut".
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