V. I.

Lenin

23

To:   HIS MOTHER

Minusinsk, May 7, 1897

We arrived here, Mother dearest, only yesterday. [1]
Tomorrow we intend to go to our villages, and I wanted to
write to you in greater detail about our journey here, which
proved to be very expensive and very uncomfortable (so there is no sense in your coming here), but I don’t know
whether I shall manage it because today I am quite worn
out after the journey and tomorrow I shall probably be even busier. If I do not manage to write in greater detail
tomorrow, I shall confine myself to what is written here,
so that you have some news of me, and will postpone a detailed letter until I arrive at “Shu-shu-shu”... as I call
the place where I shall eventually find peace.

Yours,

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin, Krzhizhanovsky and Starkov arrived in Minusinsk on
May 6, 1897 and were sent from there to their places of exile on
May 8.