V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS MOTHER AND HIS SISTER ANNA

November 15, 1898

How are you managing to winter in Podolsk, Mother dearest? This is not a very merry winter for you—Mark has
to live away from you, Mitya is chained to Podolsk. He did
not answer my questions about how he has to do his army
service—in the ranks or as an assistant surgeon? Is there
any information about his case, when it will end and how?
Or none at all? How is Mark keeping? Is he not miserable
alone in Moscow or is he up to his neck in work at his office
and his evening lectures (does he still give them?)? [3]

We have no news. The only change is in amusements— now that winter has come I go skating instead of shooting;
I recall the old days and find that I have not forgotten
how, although it is about ten years since I last skated.
Nadya also wants to learn to skate, but I am not sure whether she will manage it.

Regards to all, Many kisses, Yours,

V. U.

Anyuta,

I forgot to write to you by the last post that I had received Neue Zeit then. Yesterday I got a bill from A.M.
Kalmykova. I have accumulated a debt of about eight rubles and still go on ordering and ordering. I cannot
understand why I still have not had the fees for the translation I
sent to St. Petersburg as long ago as August 15! If the money
comes, please send fifty rubles or so to the book warehouse,
and if it does not come by the time this letter arrives, I do not know what to do. If it is possible, it would be a
good thing to send even ten rubles to the warehouse; as far
as the fee for the translation is concerned, I have been told
it will be paid in any case (there should not be any objections from the censors)—and so it is only a matter of time.

Last time I wrote to you I asked you to send the book to various acquaintances of mine but forgot that you do not
know the addresses. [4] I do not know the Archangel addresses myself. Today at a guess I am writing to
M. E. Grigoryev [1]

at that sawmill where he works. I think you have had some correspondence with Archangel; would it not be
better, then, if you were to send them to your acquaintances
to be handed on? If that cannot be done, leave them until
you get the addresses. The address of Lalayants is: Is.
Christoph. Lalayants, House No. 11, corner of Bogoslovskaya
and Krutoi streets, Voronezh. It would be a good idea to
send a copy to the Samaran, who writes in Nauchnoye Obozreniye . [2]

He is in St. Petersburg, but I don’t know his address.

Am I not loading you down too much with requests?

Wolfe’s are advertising a library of French classics at ten kopeks an issue . Have you seen what sort of an edition it
is?

Yours,

V. U.

I was amazed to read that Labriola is being published in Russian! I can imagine in what distorted form!

Could it have been you who translated Labriola?

I read in Frankfurter Zeitung [5] a very interesting article
about the Stuttgart
Parteitag . [6] We are thinking of subscribing to that newspaper next year. Do you read any
foreign newspaper?