Dear Comrades!

I have received your invitation and thank you for it most sincerely.

I must beg your pardon most earnestly, as I find myself absolutely unable to be with you today in view of the commitments I have undertaken before the All-Russian Conference of our party.493

The Conference has been delayed and will, in all likelihood, sit through the entire night, and I cannot absent myself for even a moment.

With comradely greetings,

N. Lenin

29 April (12 May) 1917

Seventh (April) All-Russian
Conference of the RSDLP(Bolsheviks).

Petrograd City-wide
Conference of the RSDLP(Bolsheviks).

April 1917. Minutes, Written no later than

First published in 1958 in the book:

p. 364, in note 175

Printed from the manuscript