Dear A. M.! I read today the "manifesto" of 195...

A literary amnesty, it seems, a complete one. You ought to try returning — having found out first, of course, whether they won't try to pull some dirty trick on you over the "school"* and so on.

Probably, they won't be able to bring charges on that account.

I hope you are not of the view that one cannot "accept" an amnesty? That would be an incorrect view: a revolutionary in these present times can accomplish much more from within Russia, and our deputies are even signing "solemn pledges."

For you, though, it is not a matter of signing something, but of making use of the amnesty. Drop me a line with your opinion and your plans. You'll pass through here anyway if you go — it's on the way!

And for a revolutionary writer, the possibility to roam about Russia (the new Russia) means the possibility to strike at the Romanovs and Co.* a hundred times more powerfully afterwards...

* Reference is to the Capri school (1909). — Ed.