[November 16, 1914]

Granat Publishing House. Tverskoy Boulevard, 15, Moscow

Sending article by registered mail November 17*.

Ulyanov

**PUBLICATION NOTES:**

Printed from the text of the telegraph form

Translation from the French

**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

19 Jean Jaurès — a prominent figure in the French and international socialist movement.

20 On July 11 (24), 1914, the newspaper "Russkoye Slovo," No. 158 published reports of strikes in Petersburg and other cities of Russia on July 9—10. The present excerpts concerning the number of strike participants are taken from these correspondences. The figures "200, 54, 10, 40, 22" denote the number of strikers (in thousands), and those marked with a question mark, in view of the absence of precise data in the newspaper, apparently represent the presumed number of strikers.

21 G. E. Rasputin (Novykh) — an adventurer who wielded great influence at the court of Nicholas II. He originated from peasants of Tobolsk Province. In 1907, under the guise of a "holy elder" and "soothsayer," he gained the trust of the tsarist family. In "Rasputinism" found their most vivid expression the obscurantism, fanaticism, and moral decay characteristic of the ruling upper echelon of tsarist Russia. Rasputin was murdered in Petrograd by a group of monarchists who attempted through this act to save the authority of the monarchy. Romanov — Nicholas II — the last Russian emperor, reigned from 1894 until the February bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1917. On July 17, 1918, he was shot in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) by decree of the Ural Regional Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

22 L. Martov (Yu. O. Tsedebaum) — one of the leaders of Menshevism. During the years of reaction and renewed revolutionary upsurge — a liquidationist. During the period of the world imperialist war, he occupied a centrist position. After the October socialist revolution, he spoke out against Soviet power.

**EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE TELEGRAM:**

1 This concerns the article "Karl Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism)," written by V. I. Lenin for the Encyclopedic Dictionary published by the Brotherhood of Brothers Granat (see Complete Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 43—93). For correspondence on this question, see ibid., Vol. 48, pp. 324—325, 330; Vol. 49, pp. 31—32.