Lenin: 101. KRUPSKAYA AND LENIN TO LENIN’S MOTHER












V. I.

Lenin



1900



101



KRUPSKAYA AND LENIN TO LENIN’S MOTHER


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Written: Written January 19, 1900

Published:

First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 8-9.

Sent from Shushenskoye to Moscow.

Printed from
the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1977,

Moscow,

Volume 37,

pages 286-287.


Translated: The Late George H. Hanna


Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros


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January 19


Dear Maria Alexandrovna,

At last matters have been settled—we may go to Russia,
no further term of exile being envisaged. We are sending
our luggage off on the 28th and we ourselves shall leave
on the 29th. We shall have company—V.V. and Olga
Alexandrovna. The Lepeshinskys also intended going, but
I have very grave doubts of their being ready in time.
O.A. is in a hurry to get to M.A., who has been sent to Riga;
V.V. is also in a hurry. We shall probably leave Minusinsk
on the 30th. The only thing I am afraid of is that there may
be a delay because of me. We did not realise until recently
that we ought to find out whether I would have to apply
for permission to travel at my own expense. V.V. asked
the police officer and discovered that the application had
to be made to the Police Department, since the local officer
cannot issue me with a travel permit himself because he
has received no instructions about me. We are today sending
telegrams to the department and to the Knipoviches, but
further complications are almost
certain.[3] Volodya wants
to stay in Ufa for a couple of days until we know whether I
shall remain in Ufa or will be sent to some place like
Sterlitamak or Belebei. We do not talk of anything but the
journey nowadays. We have packed the books in a box and had
it weighed—about
15 poods.[1]

We are sending the books
and some of our things by carrier; I don’t think we shall
have very many things. Because of the frosts we wanted to
get a sleigh with a hood but we could not find one in the



town and to have one made here is a risky business, it
probably would not last as far as Achinsk. We have plenty
of warm clothes so I don’t suppose we shall freeze, and the
weather seems to be getting warmer; yesterday Oscar saw
a cloud somewhere and the temperature this morning was
only 28° below. The worst of it is that Mother keeps
catching colds and is coughing again. Volodya and I go out
every day, despite the frosts; we have become accustomed
to fresh air but I don’t know how Mother will make the
journey. Still, I wish the 29th would come soon; once we
are going we might as well go. The day of our departure
seems to be so close that today Mother wanted to start
making
pelmeni[2]

to take with us. We have been advised
to take pelmeni to eat on the way, everything else spoils
in the frost. Mother intends making mountains of the stuff,
with no fat or onions.

We are not doing much reading now. Volodya,
incidentally, is writing a reply to
Skvortsov.[4] We shall send
Webb off today, at long last; he has made us thoroughly
tired of him, I must say.

Well, good-bye. Many kisses, for you and for Manyasha
and Anyuta. It is a pity I shall not be able to come to
Moscow. Mother sends her regards.

Yours,

Nadya

You will probably receive this letter after a telegram
from me. I hope we shall be meeting soon.

Yours,

V. U.

(I have heard [A.N. wrote ] that the censor has slashed (!!)
Prokopovich’s book—and so I cannot answer him. A
strange
incident![5])


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Notes



[1]

Pood=36 lbs.—Ed.

[2]

Tiny meat dumplings.—Ed.



[3]

That same day, January 19, 1900, Nadezhda Krupskaya applied
to the Yeniseisk Gubernia Council for permission to travel, to
Ufa at her own expense. She did not receive it by the 29th and
left Shushenskoye with Lenin. She received her travel permit in
Minusinsk.

The Knipovich family were close friends of Krupskaya’s.

[4]

This refers to Lenin’s article “Uncritical Criticism (Regarding



Mr. P. Skvortsov’s Article ’Commodity Fetishism’ in Nauchnoye
Obozreniye No. 12, 1899)” (see Collected Works, Vol. 3, pp. 609-
32).

[5]

S. N. Prokopovich’s The Working-Class Movement in the West.
An Essay in Critical Investigation (Vol.I, Germany, Belgium)
was held up by the St. Petersburg Censorship Committee (May 22,
1899) and was later passed for publication by the head of the
Central Press Board. It appeared at the end of January 1900.
Lenin wrote a review of this book (see Collected Works, Vol. 4, pp.
183–92).




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