These are the actual editors of *Zvezda*. It is necessary to help them.

The only source is the Germans. Apply to the Vorstand* through Pfannkuch. Ask for 5000 marks (they will then give 3000). Tyszka once received 42 from them for *Tribuna*, now he is asking for a second time, – so he may perhaps consider you a “competitor”. Take note of this, try to find a completely reliable translator (we have acquaintances, but they are very “colonial” people) and be sure to obtain money from the Vorstand for *Zvezda*.

Tyszka does it like this: he asks the Vorstand through Karski. The Vorstand consults the Z.B.Ts.K. and issues if there is no protest. You must take measures if you do not want the Z.B.Ts.K. to know that you are in Berlin.

I am enclosing, just in case, a “certificate”**.

I shake your hand. Lenin

Did you receive the letter with the enclosed letter from Alexandrov about Liber’s report at the Z.B.Ts.K.? 43  
Answer as soon as possible. We must finally clarify the matter.

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Written in March 1911.

Sent from Paris to Berlin

First published in 1933  
in *Lenin Miscellany* XXV

Printed from the manuscript