V. I.

Lenin

379

To:   MAXIM GORKY

5/VII.1919

Dear Alexei Maximych, You seem to stay too long in Petrograd, really. It is
not good to stay in one place. It’s tiring and boring.
Would you care to take a trip? We can arrange it. [1]

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin advised Gorky to “take a trip” on the propaganda steamer
Red Star , which was making a cruise on the Volga and Kama.
Krupskaya took part in this trip along with a group of top-level functionaries of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.), the C.E.C., and
various People’s Commissariats. On July 10, Lenin wired
Krupskaya: “I saw Gorky today and tried to persuade him to travel
on your steamer, about which I had sent a telegram to Nizhni,
but he flatly refused.” = (See present edition, Vol. 37, p. 545.)