LETTER TO R.V. MALINOVSKY

31 October (13 November) 1915

Herrn Roman Malinowski. Maunschaftsgefangenenlager, Truppenubungsplatz.

(Battalion 2, Company 8, Barrack 43)

Alten-Grabow. Germany. 13.XI.1915.

Dear friend! I recently came across your address by chance and am eager to write you a few words. I hope you will receive this letter without too much delay and will reply, telling me how you are, whether you are well and in good health? Do you need anything? Can I send you anything, and what do you need? Are you reading Russian newspapers and books? How can they be sent to you?

I have been living here in Bern with my wife (my mother-in-law1 passed away half a year ago) for the second year. My wife sends her regards, as do acquaintances. I recently received news from friends who ended up in Siberia, and it was not bad.2 So, I await your prompt reply, wishing you all the best in health and spirits.

Yours, V. Ulyanov.

Wl. Ulyanov, Seidenweg. 4a. III. (bei Fr. Schneider), Bern (Switzerland).

Published — "Istorichesky Arkhiv", 1995, No. 4, p. 9.

Fund 2, op. 1, file 27136 — autograph.

1 E.V. Krupskaya.

2 This may refer to letters from A.E. Badayev, sent on 23 September (5 October) 1915 from Yeniseisk (RCChIDNI, f. 2, op. 5, file 609) and L.B. Kamenev (see: Lenin V.I. Complete Works, vol. 49, p. 153). At that time, in Siberia were Bolshevik deputies of the Fourth State Duma and the editor of Pravda, L.B. Kamenev, who were exiled in August 1915, members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, Y.M. Sverdlov, I.V. Stalin, and others.