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Tchaikovsky is a widely accepted traditional spelling. If you change it some people won't understand who are you talking about. It's like someone suddenly would decided that he should write "Фройт"...

I was talking about the last names in the first place, not about the words adopted and "digested" by Russians long ago, some of which even changed their meaning. :)

But you are right, some...

You miss the point. For English speakers to read "Puccini" correctly they need to know IN ADVANCE how to read it, they need to know about Puccini (a composer). Personally I think that it's...

That's right. It's impossible to fully imitate Russian pronunciation with the means of Latin alphabet, moreover non-natives find it very hard to pronounce some "Russian" sounds.

So we can speak...