V. I.

Lenin

75

To:   HIS MOTHER

February 7, 1899

Today I am sending you, Mother dearest, another small package (registered)—first, the issue of
Izvestiya [2] I was asked to return and, second, a review [3] that I ask you to
pass on to the writer. By the next post I will send a little
addition to Chapter VII. I hope it will not be too late.
I think I forgot to write last time that according to my
rough calculation the whole book contains about 934,000
letters. This is not very much, altogether something like
467 printed pages, counting 2,000 letters to a page. If,
however, there are fewer letters to the page, for instance
1,680 (as in Tugan-Baranovsky’s Crises )—which, of course,
would make the edition unnecessarily expensive—there will
be about 530 pages.

Anyuta apparently did not receive the letter (written a very long time ago) in which I asked her to send me (1) a
decent German translation of Turgenev and (2) a detailed
German grammar (even one in German for Germans, because
those for Russians are usually very brief). [1]

I want to make a real study of German. Now I ask you to send me a
Russian-German Dictionary, one of those we have at home,
Lenström, or better, Reiff’s dictionary of Russian and three
European languages. I wanted to order Pavlovsky’s

Russian-German Dictionary from Kalmykova’s, but it is being issued in parts and only half of it has
appeared.

Yours,

V. U.

Regards to all.