It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

[1][2] Set in the Russian Empire during the second half of the 19th century, the film is about the wife of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

I would not give him such a chance at this very moment",[5] even though Serebrennikov openly condemns the war and for this all his productions in his home country were cancelled.

[9] On a contrary, Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian praised the film as far superior to Serebrennikov's previous Petrov's Flu, and described Alyona Mikhailova's performance as tremendous.

The website's critical consensus states: "If at times opaquely and certainly prolongedly, Tchaikovski's Wife elegantly captures a heartbroken woman's obsession with her prominent spouse who struggled with his own censured sexuality".