V. I.

Lenin

1916

257

To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

Mile. Marie Oulianoff, Malaya Gruzinskaya, 7, Apt. 13, Moscow, Russia

Ulianow, Spiegelgasse, 12 (bei Kammerer), Zürich I

February 20, 1916

Dear Manyasha, Many thanks for the newspapers you sent me a few days
ago. Today I received a notice from the Central Committee
of the German Red Cross Unions to the effect that Aaron
Rosenfeldt is a prisoner of war at Bütow, 66
Regiment. [1]
It has taken more than a year to get the information; neither the Geneva nor the Danish Red Cross could find
anything out, but I accidentally came across the address of
the German prisoner of war commission and wrote to them.
They, too, took more than two months to reply!

Nadya and I are very pleased with Zurich; there are good
libraries here—we shall stay a few weeks more and then return to
Berne. [2] You may write to this address, the post office will forward the letters.

With all my very best wishes and Nadya’s too.

Yours,

V. Ulyanov

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Notes:
[1]
It was later revealed that the information given concerned another
man of the same name, A. Rosenfeldt, in whom the Ulyanovs
were interested, had been killed at the front.

[2]
On February 21, 1916, Anna Ulyanova-Yelizarova wrote this
to her sister Maria: “I have had a letter from Nadya who writes
that their landlady drove them to desperation; they went all
over the place but could not find another room anywhere, then
hit upon the idea of going to Zurich for a couple of weeks to work
in the local libraries. She wrote about this trip and the little
shakeup as of something pleasurable.” Krupskaya’s letter has been
lost.