V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear A. M.,

How are things going with regard to an article or a story for the May issue of *Prosveshcheniye*? They write to me from there that it would be possible to bring out an edition of 10,000–15,000 (that’s how we are forging ahead!) if there were something from you. Drop me a line whether there will be anything. Then *Pravda* reprints it and we get 40,000 readers. Yes... *Prosveshcheniye* could be going well, but no, devil take it, there isn’t a single consistent journal for the workers, for the Social-Democrats, for the revolutionary democracy—all sorts of rotten milksops have appeared.

How is your health? Have you had a rest and will you have a rest in the summer? It is absolutely necessary, by Jove, for you to have a good rest!

I have troubles. My wife has fallen ill with Graves’ disease. Nerves! My nerves, too, are a bit on the rampage. We have gone to the country for the summer, to Poronin, near Zakopane.
(My address: Herrn Wl. Ulianow. Poronin. Galizien. Austria.) The place is fine. Healthy. Altitude about 700 metres.
What about it, aren’t you thinking of taking a trip? There will be interesting workers from Russia. Zakopane (seven versts from us) is a well-known climatic health resort.

Have you seen Demyan Bedny’s *Fables*? I will send them if you haven’t seen them. And if you have, drop me a line how you like them.

Do you receive *Pravda* and *Luch* regularly? Our cause is going forward—in spite of everything—and a revolutionary Social-Democratic workers’ party is being built up, against the liberal renegades, the liquidators. Our street will have its holiday. We are now jubilant over the victory of the workers in St. Petersburg over the liquidators in the election of the board of the new Metalworkers’ Union. 208

And “your” Lunacharsky, a fine one!! Oh, a fine one! Maeterlinck, he says, has “scientific mysticism”*... Or are Lunacharsky and Bogdanov no longer yours?