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Lenin

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To:   DVOSYA SHKLOVSKAYA [1]

Dear D. Z.:

I quite understand you. When I spoke to your husband, I
told him right away : wouldn’t it be better to go abroad?
For I clearly saw that you would not be able to manage here
( especially in Moscow ). I was very much surprised that he
refused to recognise this obvious fact.

I am not in Moscow at present. [3] I have written to
Gorbunov (a very good man), asking him on my behalf to talk
both with the C.C. and the People’s Commissariat for

Foreign Affairs about meeting your request. [2]

If need be, speak to Gorbunov (I enclose his telephone number) without hesitation : he is a very good man.

Best regards to the whole family, the children especially.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
On the envelope Lenin wrote: “Comrade D. Z. Shklovskaya ,
3/69 Sheremetyevsky pereulok; (please sign for letter) (from Lenin).”—
Ed .— Lenin

[2]
See previous document.— Ed.

[3]
Lenin was on holiday from January 1 to 22, 1921, and lived at

Gorki, coming to Moscow for meetings of the R.C.P.(B.) Central

Committee and the Council of Labour and Defence.