In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...
So if Tchaikovsky did indeed die of cholera from drinking contaminated ... David Brown: Tchaikovsky Remembered (London: Faber & Faber, 1993), p.217. Brown, p.217.