V. I.

Lenin

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KRUPSKAYA AND LENIN TO LENIN’S MOTHER

May 3

Dear Maria Alexandrovna, We have received your postcards and I am very glad
to know that you are having a good rest. Here, too, it is
real summer. Today we sent our things off to the country.
Our new address is

Villa Terezy Skupień, Poronin, Galizien, .........

Austria.

We shall be leaving in three days. The packing was an awful nuisance but as we are going to Poronin for five
months we had to buy everything. I am quite invalided and
tire very quickly. I have been going for electric treatment
for a whole month, the swelling in my neck has not gone
down but my eyes have become more normal and the palpitation is less. Treatment is free here in the nerve clinic
and the doctors are very attentive. There is another advantage. While you are waiting your turn, you hear Polish
spoken and speak yourself. I certainly want to learn Polish.
In summer I shall have spare time and will read Polish books. We shall probably have a help in for four or five
hours a day in summer and I shall have less to bother about.
Mother did not go to Russia. Partly because of my illness
and partly because there was no one to accompany her. But
mostly because of my illness. In the last few days she has
grown very tired from all the commotion in the house.

Volodya has been away and was not home for his birthday
or for the holidays. The journey made a good break for him. [1]

I do not yet know whether there is anywhere to bathe in Poronin. Volodya is very fond of bathing—there will
be no bath there and he will not be able to take a shower.

I want to get to the country as soon as possible. We live on the outskirts of the town, there are market gardens
opposite our windows and the day before yesterday a nightingale was singing, but still it is a town, the children
shout, soldiers are riding to and fro and the carts are noisy.

Well, I embrace you and Anya fondly and send regards to all. Is it possible that Anya’s finger still hurts?

Mother sends regards.

Yours,

Nadya

Mother dearest, I am adding a couple of words to Nadya’s letter. I must
apologise for not having written, but I have been away for a couple of days and now we are moving.

Many thanks to Mitya for the letter. [2] I have also received a very long and interesting letter from Mark. I will
reply to it from Poronin.

Poronin is the station before Zakopane (a spa). There are direct coaches to Zakopane—from Warsaw second class
and from Granice third class.

I embrace you fondly and send best regards to all.

Yours,

V. U.