V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — G. A. ALEXINSKY¹

7/1 08. [Geneva.]

Dear Pyotr,

Today N[adezhda] K[onstantinovna] and I have arrived in Geneva. We have not yet finally decided where to settle: Al[exander] Al[exandrovich] is very much against Geneva, and we are reconnoitring other places.

But we must fully clarify the situation here as well. Please write immediately, 1) do you know a suitable person to take charge of the printing plant and the dispatch department,² 2) what do you think of Dok... in that capacity? 3) what special things must be taken into account regarding the printing plant?... its owner, since it belongs to the C[entral] O[rgan] of the Bolshevik [Fraction] of the Stockholm Congress? Why do you consider only the Menshevik printing plant as the property of the C[entral] C[ommittee]? 4) Do you think a weekly newspaper is possible and on what approximate circulation could it count? 300—500—1,000?

We received your letter in Berlin amidst the panic caused by the arrest of the seventeen,³ and destroyed it after reading it insufficiently carefully.

Reply to the address...


How is your health? When approximately will it be possible to return... here? Have you recovered [at all] seriously during this time?

I press your hand...

¹ G. Alexinsky, then a Social-Democratic Bolshevik, later a renegade, was living at this time in Italy (where exactly—could not be established).
² This refers to the printing plant and dispatch department of *Proletary*, whose publication was being transferred abroad by decision of the Bolshevik centre. Lenin left Finland in December 1907 and, via Stockholm—Berlin, with stops in these cities, arrived in Geneva on January 7, 1908. I. Dubrovinsky and A. Bogdanov—the other two members of the *Proletary* editorial board—arrived in Geneva by February 1908.
³ On June 23, 1907, an expropriation of State Bank money being transported from the post office was carried out on Erivan Square in Tiflis. The organiser of the expropriation, “Kamo”-Ter-Petrosyan, and all its participants managed to escape. But the Russian government published the series and numbers of the 500-ruble credit notes seized in the expropriation, and abroad in Berlin, Munich, Stockholm, and Geneva in December 1907, those changing these notes were arrested simultaneously. In November 1907, the organiser of the Tiflis expropriation, “Kamo”-Ter-Petrosyan, betrayed by the provocateur Ya. A. Zhitomirsky, was arrested in Berlin. The explosives found on him gave the Berlin police grounds to suspect him of anarchism, but the Russian government, having established “Kamo’s” identity, demanded his extradition as a criminal. Following this, in search of participants in the Tiflis expropriation, arrests were made in the Russian Social-Democratic colonies of Paris, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, and on January 3, 1908, a meeting of Russian Social-Democrats in Berlin was arrested.