V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — TO M. V. KOBETSKY
IN COPENHAGEN*
1 Beginning of August 1914. Poronin. | 1

Dear Comrade! Our trip did not come off.² I do not know whether you received the letter. If so, drop me a line in reply, so that I can check whether the post is working. You will probably now find yourself, as an exception and a very rare one at that, a resident of a non-belligerent country, and therefore, if the post from you to us is functioning, you must absolutely keep us informed and send us news from the newspapers which are inaccessible to us. Of course, only the most important news (especially about Russia).

Let me know whether you will have (or already have) good connections with Stockholm, whether you can forward letters, give an address for money from Russia, etc.

Greetings!

Yours, V. I.

¹ The date is based on the content of the letter, which shows it was written immediately after the declaration of war, evidently during the first week, since on August 8 Lenin was already arrested.
² This apparently refers to the trip to the meeting of the ISB in Brussels.

V. I. LENIN — TO V. A. TIKHOMIRNOV
IN PORONIN*
9. IX. [1914, Berne.]

Lieber Freund! Wir sind hier glücklich angekommen u[nd] bleiben in Bern. Schwiegermutter gesund. Vielleicht wird sie nach Russland fahren via Genua-Saloniki (od[er] Archangelsk). Ihre Mutter muss das Geld für Sie an das Auswärtige Amt (Ministerium) schicken, damit dieses Geld hier an Frau Dwoscha Schklowsky (Falkenweg, Bern) ausgezahlt werde. Ihre Mutter soll dann telegraphieren an diese Adresse, dass sie soviel Geld für Sie geschickt hat. Wir werden an Ihre Mutter schreiben. Hoffentlich geht es Ihnen u[nd] allen Freunden gut. Bitte schreibt mir etwas über Ihre Gesundheit u[nd] Ihre litterarische Arbeiten.

Besten Gruss an Sie und alle Freunde von der ganzen Familie!!

Ihr Wl. Uljanow

[Translation.]

Dear Friend! We have arrived safely here and are staying in Berne.² My mother-in-law is well. She will probably go to Russia via Genoa—Salonika (or Archangel). Your mother must send you the money through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so that this money is paid out here to Mrs. Dvosha Shklovsky (Falkenweg, Bern). Then your mother should telegraph to this address that she has sent such and such a sum for you. We will write to your mother. I hope that you and all the friends are well. Please write to me about your health and literary work.

Best greetings to you and all the friends from the whole family!!

Yours, Wl. Ulyanov

¹ V. A. Tikhomirnov (Victor) was sent in the summer of 1914 by the Bolshevik Duma faction (the “Six”) to Poronin on matters concerning *Pravda* and for work undertaken by Lenin: to study, from correspondence printed in *Pravda*, the past campaigns for the 6-hour working day, collections for the working-class press, etc.
² On September 5, 1914, Lenin, after his release from the Austrian prison in Nowy Targ, arrived in Berne.
³ E. V. Krupskaya—mother of N. K. Krupskaya, who lived with her in emigration. Died during the war in Switzerland.

V. I. LENIN — TO YA. S. GANETSKY IN PORONIN*
28/IX 1914. [Berne.]

Lieber Freund! Nur heute bekam ich Ihren Brief und alles, was Sie übergesandt haben. Besten Dank! Unbedingt würde ich Ihnen Geld leihen, wenn nur irgendwelche Möglichkeit eine Summe disponibel zu bekommen da wäre. Leider ist keine. Victor (jetzt in Genua, 30. IX od[er] 1. X abreist nach Heimat) hat positiv versprochen Geld zu schicken: sogleich werde ich Ihnen auch schicken, gleich nach der Ankunft des Geldes. Hier nichts Neues. Russische Zeitungen mit grösster Verspätung. Grigorii mit Familie schon lange hier. Lässt Sie grüssen.

Beste Grüsse an Ihre Familie von uns allen. Hoffe bald Nachrichten von Ihnen zu haben.

Ihr Wl. Uljanow.

P. S. Wenn Sie zufällig den Herrn Bezirkshauptmann in Neumarkt treffen, fragen Sie bitte ob er meine Papiere hier gesandt?

[Translation.]

Dear Friend! Only today I received your letter¹ and everything you forwarded. Many thanks! Of course, I would lend you money if there were any possibility of getting a sum available here. Unfortunately, there is none. Victor (now in Genoa, leaving for home on 30. IX or 1. X) positively promised to send money: I will send you some immediately as soon as I receive it. Nothing new here. Russian newspapers arrive with great delay. Grigory with his family has been here a long time. He sends you greetings.

Best greetings to your family from us all. Hope to have news from you soon.

Yours, Wl. Ulyanov.

P. S. If you happen to meet Mr. District Captain in Neumarkt, please ask him whether he has sent my papers here?²

¹ Ya. S. Fürstenberg-Ganetsky’s letters are not in the Lenin Institute archive.
² This refers to notebooks with statistical extracts on the agrarian question in Austria, which were taken by the Austrian authorities for ciphers and confiscated from Lenin during a search in Poronin on August 7, 1914. These notebooks were sent to the district town of Nowy Targ or, in German, Neumarkt, to the Starosta Grozdinsky, on whose orders Lenin was imprisoned. After Lenin’s release, the notebooks were not returned. They were later sent to Vienna and, despite measures taken by the Lenin Institute, have not been found to this day.

V. I. LENIN — TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF THE “BR. GRANAT” PUBLISHERS.
4/1 1915. [Berne.]

Dear Colleague!

Yesterday I received your letter and sent the telegram “consens”—agree. However regrettable it is that the editorial board has thrown out everything on socialism and everything on tactics (without which Marx is not Marx), I still had to agree, because against the argument you advanced (“absolutely impossible”) nothing can be done.¹

I would be very grateful if you would send me the offprint or drop me a postcard about when it might be ready. By the way: would there still be time for some corrections to the section on dialectics? Perhaps you would be kind enough to note exactly when it goes to press and what the final deadline for submitting corrections is. I have been occupied with this question for the last month and a half and think I could add something if there were time.

Further, I take the liberty of offering my services to the editorial board of the dictionary, if there are still unassigned articles from subsequent volumes. I am currently in exceptionally good conditions regarding German and French libraries, which I can use in Berne—and in exceptionally bad conditions regarding literary work in general. Therefore, I would gladly undertake articles on questions of political economy, politics, the working-class movement, philosophy, etc. My wife, under the name N. Krupskaya, has written on pedagogy in *Russkaya Shkola*² and *Svobodnoye Vospitaniye*,³ and has especially studied the question of the “Labour School” and the old classics of pedagogy. She would gladly undertake articles on these questions.

Yours ready to be of service,

V. Ulyanov.

Wl. Ulianow. Distelweg. 11 Bern.

¹ In Granat’s dictionary, vol. XXVIII, p. 219, Lenin’s article “Karl Marx” was published. The editorial board omitted two chapters, “Socialism” and “Tactics of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat,” which were first published by the Lenin Institute in the pamphlet “Marx, Engels, Marxism,” 1925 (Works, vol. XVIII, pp. 25 and 27).
² *Russkaya Shkola* (Russian School)—a general pedagogical journal for school and family. Published from 1890. Editor-publisher—Ya. Gurevich. The journal widely covered questions of contemporary pedagogy in all areas of education.
³ *Svobodnoye Vospitaniye* (Free Education)—a monthly pedagogical journal, preached new pedagogical trends, both Russian and American. Published from 1907 to 1917 under the editorship of I. Gorbunov-Posadov, published by L. Konshina.

V. I. LENIN — TO V. A. KARPINSKY
IN GENEVA.
[1915, Berne.]

Dear V. K.!

I am sending the proofs at once!¹ Please correct them.

By Jove, you are not acting well in not taking money for copying. Firstly, this is a direct failure to fulfil a precise condition in an uncomradely manner: you did agree to send the tariff!²

Secondly, what are you forcing me to do now?

To stop sending you things?

Think it over in a moment when you are not angry and not nervous—I am sure you will realise you are wrong. You mustn’t do this!

Best greetings!

Yours, Lenin.

¹ This refers to the proofs of *Sotsial-Demokrat*.
² This refers to payment for typing Lenin’s manuscript.

V. I. LENIN — TO V. A. KARPINSKY
IN GENEVA.
[1915, Berne.]

Dear V. K.!

Please insert the enclosed note (either as a note or as text, depending on what is more convenient in this case):—at the place in the article where the feasibility of Finnish independence is discussed.¹

Greetings!

Yours, Lenin

Couldn’t you tell that swine Rybalka (even if through Kuzma)² that I fully authorise the printing of my letters and postscripts? Or is it inconvenient for you?

¹ It has not been possible to establish which article and which note is referred to.
² Kuzma Lyakhotsky—an emigrant, owner of the typesetting shop where *Sotsial-Demokrat* and the Ukrainian *Borotba* were set. Rybalka—L. Yurkevich.