V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v55;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Manyasha

I read your letter of September 27 with interest and would be very glad if you would write to me occasionally.

I have not been to the Hermitage or the theatres here. I don’t feel like going alone. In Moscow I shall be glad to go with you to the Tretyakov Gallery and somewhere else.

I read the *Russkiye Vedomosti* 5 in the Public Library (two weeks late). Perhaps I shall subscribe to them when I get work here. There is no need to keep them for me, but I think it is too early to tear them up either: something interesting may be needed.

From your story about the French teacher I see that the Moscow schoolgirls, if they have outstripped you, have not done so by much. Probably the average pupils are no better than you? Write and tell me how much time you spend on home lessons.

Tell Mitya 6 to tell the second-hand bookseller who asks 25 rubles for Klyuchevsky to go to the devil: you cannot give more than 4 rubles. 7 How are Mitya’s studies getting on?

Good-bye. Yours, V. U.

Do you decipher my handwriting?

Written in October 1893

Sent from St. Petersburg to Moscow

First published in 1929