V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek); AI-translated.

MATERIALS FOR JANUARY 9, 1903
[February 1905]

M[oscow]
N[ews]
No. 6 (Jan. 6). "Belinsky's (?) Reply to Our Reformers" 1).—
--------"Bel[insky]'s 'meaningful word' on t s a r i s t a u t o c r a c y ... (Pypin, I, Notes of the Fatherland, 1839.)
((What do you think?))
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Bel[insky] on "obedience to
tsarist authority" etc.
No. 7 (Jan. 7). "Russian Assembly" submitted an address (for Orthodoxy,
Autocracy, Nationality).
Tsar's
favor. Delight of Moscow News.
No. 12 (Jan. 12). Leading 2): "The Worker Question and Political Turmoil" — on Jan. 9. Workers "victims of exploitation by outside elements"...
It is necessary, they say, to have a "correct organization" of workers against the deceivers.
"That organization which workers need, and from whose absence their interests suffer, must be an organization of the working class itself. Not Gapons and not Nechaevs should be their leaders, but the workers themselves, people of labor"... Then, they say, the working class will fight for its true interests.
No. 17 (Jan. 17). Synod's message regarding Jan. 9 ... against "criminal instigators of simple Russian people" etc., "unworthy clergyman, who insolently trampled holy vows" etc.
No. 24 (Jan. 24). Toward a characterization of Gapon 3).
He was, they say, expelled from the seminary for relations with a woman... Then he became close with a beautiful nihilist, also a Jewess (he himself a convert from Jews). As a priest of a transit prison, he seduced a girl prisoner etc. etc.
He left Petersburg for Poltava with a ward of the shelter (Narva) Uzdaleva etc. etc.
! Red-haired freak!!
!
No. 31 (Jan. 31).
((Apocryphal note 4) — regarding
"project of a revolutionary note" published in Our Days and Russian News, [more than] 200 people] many Moscow manufacturers and factory owners (and then in Petersburg the office of iron manufacturers [more than] 20 manufacturers and factory owners in the meeting and x)...
Demand constitution etc.
Moscow News does not believe: apocryphal, they say, etc.
No. 32 (Feb. 1). On the Zemsky Sobor 5) furiously against: "will intensify revolution a hundredfold"...
Example of 1789 6) etc...

0 In No. 6 of "Moscow News," dated January 19 (6), 1905, article by Alex. Liprandi "Belinsky's Reply to Our Reformers."
2) No. 7 of "Moscow News" dated January 20 (7), 1905. Leading — editorial.
3) In No. 24 of "Moscow News" dated February 6 (January 24), 1905, printed: "Toward a characterization of Gapon." Here are excerpts from the report of the 2nd shelter of the Moscow-Narva Department of the Society for the Care of Poor and Sick Children (where Gapon worked) and from No. 18 of the journal "Der Deutsche."
4) Regarding the "Note" of manufacturers and industrialists, "Moscow News" says: "We resolutely refuse to believe that such a seditious note could have been composed by a Moscow manufacturer."
5) In No. 32 of "Moscow News" in the article "A Dangerous Misunderstanding" it says: "If, God forbid, these demands [i.e., the demands for a Zemsky Sobor. Ed.] find a response in Government circles, then a dangerous, and for Russia fatal, misunderstanding may easily arise: To pacify the revolution, a Zemsky Sobor will be convened, which will intensify it a hundredfold."
6) In the same article it says: "On May 5, 1789, the estate assembly—the Estates-General—convened, and immediately the Third Estate demanded the abolition of estate barriers."