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The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) spent time at Borzhom from 11 June to 5 July, 1887, according to entries in his diary for those dates, during which he frequently bathed in the waters and spent pleasant time strolling in Vorontzovsky park, though he makes no mention of his having drunk the waters, unless by "taking the waters" he meant intended both drinking and bathing in them. Tchaikovsky, who complained regularly of intestinal pains for years, mentions a visit to a doctor in Borzhom, probably a quack, as this doctor is said to have told Tchaikovsky that his "liver has moved somewhere that it shouldn't have" (diary entry for June 13, 1887).

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