V. I.

Lenin

September 5, 1914

Dear Comrade, I have safely arrived with all my family at
Zurich. [2]
Legitimationen [1] were asked for only at Innsbruck and
Feldkirche: your help was therefore extremely useful to
me. Passports are required for entry into Switzerland, but
I was allowed in without a passport when I mentioned
Greulich. Very best regards and deepest gratitude.

With Party greetings, Lenin (V. Ulyanov )

Absender: Uljanow bei Bekzadian. Bollegstrasse. 40.
Zurich.

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Notes:
[1]
Papers.— Ed .

[2]
The outbreak of the First World War found Lenin in the village
of Poronin (Galicia). On July 25 (August 7), the Austrian
authorities carried out a search of Lenin’s quarters, and the gendarme
sergeant-major confiscated the manuscript of Lenin’s article on
the agrarian question, taking the tables in it to be a code. Lenin
was arrested the next day. After a fortnight’s detention, he was
released through the efforts of Russian and Polish Social–
Democrats and with the help of Austrian socialists Viktor Adler and
deputy of the Austrian Parliament Hermann Diamant. He was
allowed to leave Austria for Switzerland. On August 23 (

September 5), 1914, Lenin arrived in Berne together with N. K.
Krupskaya and her mother, Y. V. Krupskaya.