V. I.

Lenin

319

To:   INESSA ARMAND

26/I.

Dear Friend, I was terribly glad to receive your nice, friendly, warm, charming
letter. I am inexpressibly grateful to you for it.

Things here have gone worse. One has already deserted to the
conciliators—so now we have no majority, and the conciliators will have
it all their own rotten way.

I am leaving here on Tuesday or Wednesday next and will soon (except
for a lecture in Leipzig) be in Cracow.

They write me from there that things are in a bad way with
Pravda —there’s no money. The circulation has dropped. A
deficit. Bad job.

My new address: Oulianoff, rue Souveraine. 18.

(Ixelles) Bruxelles.

From the enclosed letter to Nik. Vas. you will find an answer to your
question whether I am angry on account of the unsuccessful lecture. I
should think I am! That idiot Antonov!! And the inability apart from him to arrange practical matters.

I received the express mail and have handed everything to
Malinovsky. He is here and will stay another 2–3 days.

Take care of the kopeks in the C.O.A. and don’t allow Antonov to
indulge his harebrained schemes.

My very, very, very best regards, my dear friend. Excuse the haste and
brevity. I have no time.

Yours,
V.U.

The bulletin is the most important job of all. I beg you to
keep an eye on it yourself or get it going without Antonov.