V. I. LENIN — TO G. M. VYAZMENSKY 1
IN BERLIN. **
After January 9, 1913, Kraków.
Dear Comrade! I will do my best to fulfill your request and procure Russian leaflets. However, this is no longer an easy task, and one can hardly count on much: the publishing industry in Russia is extremely weak, and they are very reluctant to send materials printed there to us—though we have consistently asked for them. In Petrograd, two or three leaflets were available just before January 9, 1913.
You are mistaken when you think that I am well connected when it comes to Polish literature. I have no contacts within the PPS; please obtain such materials through O. K. and the Liquidators. As for the Social-Democratic “Zazhodovtsy”2 (Rosa and Tyshko), I have no dealings with them either.3
Please send me, for about a week, the “Izvestia of the Central Committee of the RSDLP” from 1907—both issues are urgently needed.1 I will return them carefully.
I am enclosing the letter to Comrade Kuznetsov] which you requested.3
With comradely greetings,
N. Leshch
*
The letter was written on a postcard addressed to Rubakin: “Mr. N. Roubakine. Ciarens. Schweiz. Suisso,” and bearing the sender’s address: eWl-
XJljanow. 47. Lubomirskiego. Kraków.” Ed.
** This letter, like the following one (p. 216) and the letter to Max Grün-
Althaus (p. 224), is printed from typewritten copies, with explanatory notes provided by G. Vyazmensky. These copies were sent by G. Vyazmensky to the archive of the Lenin Institute in Berlin in December 1926. Ed.

1 G. M. Vyazmensky, head of the Russian Socialist Archive, had asked Lenin to send materials to replenish the archive—namely, Polish illegal literature as well as all illegal publications of the RSDLP. The Russian Archive in Berlin had been founded by Prince I. D. Bebutov.
I. D. Bebutov bequeathed his entire archive to the RSDLP, writing: “For it alone cares for the people, and it is to it that the primary and guiding role in the future free Russia must belong”—thus he stated in a letter to Yu. V. Chicherin dated May 2, 1912 (Lenin Institute Archive). In 191*2, Bebutov entrusted his collection to the Partei-Vorstand—the Central Committee of the German Party. According to Vyazmensky, Lenin visited this archive in the summer of 1912 and there saw the “Izvestia of the Central Committee of the RSDLP for 1907,” which he had long been searching for.
2 “Zarz$d Glowny” (“Main Board”)—the Central Executive Committee of the Social Democracy of Poland and Lithuania.
3 “Izvestia of the Central Committee of the RSDLP” was a publication of the Central Committee of the RSDLP; three issues were released: No. 1 on July 16, No. 2 on August 17, and No. 3 on October 11, 1907.
4 It seems that what is meant here is Lenin’s letter of recommendation to N. V. Kuznetsov (Sapozhkov) in Paris. According to G. Vyazmensky, he was in Paris in January–February 1913, and Kuznetsov had handed him several valuable issues of illegal publications from the Ural Bolshevik committees for the archive.
2120fr
V. I. LENIN — TO G. M. VYAZMENSKY
IN BERLIN.
[Early May 1913, Kraków.]1
Dear Comrade!
I am returning the leaflet. Do you happen to have a copy from the same year, 1907—printed at the Finnish [printing house] without any indication of place—containing the resolutions of the June Conference of the RSDLP of 1907?2
If you do, I would be most grateful if you could lend it to me for a short time.
Best regards to you, Lenin. *
49. Lubomirskiego. Kraków.

The date is confirmed by the altered house number—49—in Lenin’s address in Kraków; N. Krupskaya mentions this change in a letter to L. Knipovich dated May 4, 1913.
* — Best greetings to you. Yours, Lenin. Ed.

LETTERS FROM THE SECOND PERIOD OF EMIGRATION


What is referred to here is the leaflet: “Notice Regarding the Party Conference on July 21, 22, and 23, 1907. Published by the Central Committee of the RSDLP” (see Lenin’s Collected Works, vol. X IF, p. 436).
Apparently, a mistake crept into the copy of the letter—and also into vol. XII of Lenin’s Collected Works—where it should read “July.”