V. I.

Lenin

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To:   HIS MOTHER [1]

March 7, 1899

This week, Mother dearest, I have received three little
books by Turgenev in German. Merci for them. I am glad you got the Reclam edition—I think it is the most
convenient. I am now waiting for a dictionary from Russian into
German (I remember we had two—Lenström and Reiff, an old dictionary from Russian. The latter would be better,
although the first of them is quite all right), and also some
sort of a grammar. I wrote about this to Anyuta; Mark has
a Book about Books in which several detailed German grammars written in the German language are listed. I wanted
to order Pavlovsky’s Russo-German Dictionary from
Kalmykova but it seems that it is not finished and is being
published piecemeal.

I am now finishing an article [3] in reply to
Struve. [2]

It seems to me he has got things badly mixed up and his
article may cause a good deal of misunderstanding among
supporters and malicious glee among opponents. If it is not
possible to place the reply in the journal (for the simple
reason that Tugan-Baranovsky or Bulgakov will get their
answers in first; I still have not had the January issue of
Nauchnoye Obozreniye ) I think I shall include it in the
“markets” as a fourth Appendix (the article is no more than about sixteen pages). Of course it would be better in the
journal.

There are no changes here. The weather is warm. Spring is already making itself felt.

There is little good news from the comrades. Apollinariya
Alexandrovna was allowed to go to Yeniseisk for three weeks. Poor Anatoly is sick all the time, his temperature
goes up to 40° C. They say he has consumption—he is not
allowed to know this, of course. His transfer to Minusinsk
District has still not been settled.

Yours,

V. U.

Many kisses. Y.V. and Nadya send regards.