V. I.

Lenin

To the First Congress of Working Women of Transcaucasia [1]

I greet the First Congress of working women of Transcaucasia. Thank you
for electing me. I cannot attend owing to illness.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The First Congress of Working Women of Transcaucasia opened in
Baku on May 26, 1922. The following reports were made at the congress:
development of the women’s movement in Soviet Russia and throughout the
world and the tasks of the International Women’s Secretariat; the working
women of Transcaucasia and the Third International; the present situation,
and others. The congress closed on May 30.

Lenin’s greetings to the congress were written in reply to a message
from the working women of Georgia, Armenia and

Azerbaijan notifying him that he had been elected delegate to the congress
of working women of Transcaucasia.

The greetings were read out at the opening meeting of the congress.