V. I.

Lenin

343

To:   INESSA ARMAND

25/V. 1914

Dear Friend , [1]

The Malinovsky affair is warming up. He is not here. It looks like
“flight”. [5] Naturally, this gives food for the worst thoughts. Alexei wires from Paris that the Russian newspapers are wiring Burtsev that Malinovsky is accused of being a
provocateur.

You can imagine what it means!! Very improbable but we are obliged to control all
“ ouï-dire ”. [2]
Wiring does not cease between Poronin , [3]

St. Petersburg, et Paris. Petrovsky wires today that “slanderous rumours
dispelled. Liquidators conducting vicious campaign”.

Russkoye Slovo wires Burtsev that the suspicions have been
largely dispelled, but “other papers (???) (liquidators’???) are
continuing their accusations

You can easily imagine how much I am worried . [4]

Yours,
V. I.

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Notes:
[1]
These words are in English in the original.— Ed .

[2]
Rumours.— Ed .

[3]
The words in italics marked with two asterisks are in English in the
original.— Ed .

[4]

[5]
In May 1914, Malinovsky, fearing exposure, resigned his office as Duma
deputy and left the country. Subsequently it was discovered that Malinovsky
had been an agent provocateur. In 1918 he was sentenced to death by the
Supreme Tribunal of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and shot.