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Lenin: 197. TO HIS SISTER MARIA











V. I.

Lenin



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To:   HIS SISTER MARIA


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Written: Written December 3 or 4, 1909

Published:

First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 11.

Sent from Paris.

Printed from
the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1977,

Moscow,

Volume 37,

pages 440-441.


Translated: The Late George H. Hanna


Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros


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Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova,

Davydov’s House, Apt. 4,

Bozheninsky Street,

Devichye Polye,

Moscow,

Russia

Dear Manyasha,

Today I received an issue of Utro Rossii with the vulgar
nonsense about
Gorky.[1] For some days now a number
of newspapers in Paris (L’e;clair) and in Berlin
(Berliner
Tageblatt)[2] have been engaged in similar lies. Some days
ago there was a good refutation of this mass of lies in
Vorwärts, where it was very correctly demonstrated and very
wittily explained that this is all one big nonsensical
invention. Some fool heard rumours he did not understand and
got everything wrong—scraps he had picked up about
otzovism, the school, philosophy and so on. Utro Rossii must
be a shady little rag to have cooked up an “interview”
just for the sake of sensation. Today Rech is also engaged
in the fabrication of similar scandal. The Cadets are happy
to have something to lie and talk scandal about.

How are you? How is Mother? I have had no news from
you for quite a while. Write and let me know how you
are getting on, what you are doing, and how Mitya is. There
have been no changes here. Winter is beginning—! go to



the library. The apartment is warm. Y.V. is feeling rather
poorly. Nadya is zealously studying French.

All the best, kiss Mother many, many times.

Yours,

V. U.

P.S. Did you get the reply to the historian? With regard
to my books at
Sablino[3]—if the opportunity occurs, it
would be fine to ask one of our St. Petersburg friends to
send them to me here, if not all of them, then at least what
there is of Marx and Engels and the best of the classics.


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Notes





[1]

On November 15, 1909, the newspaper Utro Rossii (Morning of
Russia), organ of the Moscow industrialists published by P. P.
Ryabushinsky, printed a libellous story about “M. Gorky’s
Expulsion from the S. D. Party”. The “interview” of which Lenin
writes was published on November 17 under the heading “The
Excommunication of Maxim Gorky”. This libellous account was
taken up by Rech and other bourgeois papers, Russian and foreign.
In reply to the inventions about Gorky’s expulsion that were
being spread by bourgeois newspapers Lenin wrote his article
“The Bourgeois Press Fable About the Expulsion of Gorky” (see
Collected Works, Vol. 16, p. 106).

[2]

L’Eclair (Lightning)–a Paris newspaper published from 1888
to 1939.

Berliner Tageblatt (Berliner Tageblatt und Handelszeitung—
Berlin Daily and Commercial Gazette)—published from 1871 to
1939.



[3]

Lenin’s sister Anna, her husband Mark Yelizarov, and Lenin’s
mother were living at the village of Sablino near a railway station
of the same name, not far from St. Petersburg. Lenin visited
his relatives there in 1905 and 1906. A room was allotted to him
in the cottage and he was able to work and rest there.



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