V. I.

Lenin

92

To:   HIS MOTHER

August 1, 1899

I do not think there is very much news this week, Mother
dearest. The weather has changed to real summer, it is very hot and rather interferes with shooting, which I am
indulging in very strenuously because it will probably be
over soon.

I do not remember whether I wrote about the doctor (Y. M. Lyakhovsky), that he has made a trip to Chita as a
doctor and intends to accept a similar post in Sretensk.

Visitors have arrived—M.A. with his wife and others.
Excuse me for cutting this letter short. We are all well
and send regards. I shall write to Anyuta soon about the
Credo (which interests and exasperates me and everybody
else) in detail. [1]

Many kisses, Yours,

V. U.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin’s detailed analysis of the Credo appears to have been sent
in a letter written in invisible ink.

Credo , or Creed, was the name under which the programme
or manifesto of the group of Economists, written by Y. D.
Kuskova, became known. It was sent to Lenin in Shushenskoye by
his sister Anna. Lenin’s sister later recalled that she had received
the Credo in St. Petersburg from A. M. Kalmykova and “in the
next letter in invisible ink to my brother, one of those written in
books and journals, added this composition, rewritten in
invisible ink.... I gave the document the first name that came into my
head and wrote ’I am sending you some “ Credo of the young”.”’

After having received the Credo Lenin wrote “A Protest by
Russian Social-Democrats” which was discussed and adopted at
a meeting of seventeen Marxists exiled to Minusinsk District