V. I.

Lenin

1894

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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA [4]

Manyasha, [1]

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

I have not been to the Hermitage Museum or to theatres.
I somehow do not want to go alone. In Moscow I shall be
glad to go to the Tretyakov Gallery and other places with you.

I read Russkiye Vedomosti [5] [2] (two weeks old) in the
Public Library. When I get a job here perhaps I Will subscribe to it. It is not worth while saving them for me, but
I think they should not be torn up too soon—there may be something interesting that will be needed.

From what you say about the French teacher I see that if the Moscow schoolgirls are ahead of you it is not by very
much. The average girl probably doesn’t know the language any better than you? Write and tell me whether you
spend a lot of time doing your homework.

Tell
Mitya [6] [3] that he should tell the bookseller to go to
hell if he asks 25 rubles for Klyuchevsky—he should not pay
more than 4 rubles. [7] How is Mitya getting on with his studies?

Till we meet, Yours,

V. U.
Can you read my writing?