V. I. Lenin

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PETITIONS OF V. I. ULYANOV (LENIN) 1896-1900

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To His High Honour, Mr. Procurator of the St. Petersburg
Circuit Court
From Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov (Chamber No. 193)

PETITION

I have the honour to request that the following items enclosed herewith be handed over to my sister, Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova:
1) a letter,
2) manuscript No. 1 ("New Economic Movements in Peasant Life"*), and
3) manuscript No. 2 ("Outlines of the Political Economy of the Early Nineteenth Century"**).

Assistant Attorney-at-Law V. Ulyanov
St. Petersburg, December 2, 1896.

First published, from the manuscript
* See Works, 5th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 1-66. — Ed.
** V. I. Lenin's manuscript has not been found to date. — Ed.

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To the Moscow Security Department
From Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov

PETITION

By order of the administrative authorities I am subject to exile to Eastern Siberia for three years from the city of St. Petersburg. The Director of the Police Department permitted me, while still in St. Petersburg, to proceed to the city of Irkutsk on a travel permit at my own expense, stopping over in Moscow for two days to see my mother.

Finding that it would be extremely burdensome for her, due to her delicate state of health, to accompany me to Irkutsk, and that the other exiles in the same case were sent by rail at government expense, my mother has already submitted from Moscow a petition to the Director of the Police Department requesting permission for me to stay with her a little longer and that I be attached to a party of exiles. This petition was sent on Tuesday, February 18, by express train so that it would be received in St. Petersburg on Wednesday and the Director would have time to issue whatever instructions were necessary. But since postal communications are nevertheless too slow and I feared that the period of my stay in Moscow might expire before a reply was received, the very next day, Wednesday, February 19, my mother sent a telegram to St. Petersburg to the Director of the Police Department, with the reply paid—a telegram petitioning for permission for me to remain with her, on account of her illness, for another week. Inquiries made at the telegraph office showed that no reply to the telegram had been received, and therefore I decided to apply to the Moscow Security Department, assuming that the reply to the telegram and the petition had been communicated to it in advance.

At present, therefore, I am in an uncertain position: if the Director of the Police Department does not permit me to join the party for dispatch at government expense by rail, then, immediately upon receipt of a reply, I shall proceed to the city of Irkutsk at my own expense, in accordance with the instructions contained in the travel permit issued to me.

On the basis of the foregoing, I have the honour most humbly to request the Moscow Security Department to issue me a permit to remain in Moscow until a reply is received from the Police Department.

Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov
Moscow, February 22, 1897.

Enclosed herewith is receipt No. 56 of the post office at the Nikolayevsky Railway Station dated February 18.

First published in 1934
in the journal *Krasny Arkhiv* No. 1 Printed from the manuscript

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To His High Excellency
Mr. Irkutsk Governor-General
From Assistant Attorney-at-Law
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

PETITION

By order of the administrative authorities I have been exiled to Eastern Siberia for three years on a political charge. By permission of the Police Department I arrived at the place of exile at my own expense on a travel permit issued to me by the St. Petersburg City Governor on February 17, 1897, No. 2560. The place of reporting designated in this travel permit is the city of Irkutsk, for the purpose of presenting the travel permit to the chancellery of Your High Excellency.

Since, according to information obtained from the local provincial authorities (i.e., the Yenisei Provincial Board), no instructions have yet been issued concerning me, and since, judging by the general assumptions expressed to my mother by the Director of the Police Department, it is possible that my place of residence will be assigned within the boundaries of Yenisei Gubernia, reporting to the city of Irkutsk in this latter case would require me to incur very burdensome additional expenses for the return journey. Therefore I have the honour most humbly to request Your High Excellency to permit me to remain in the city of Krasnoyarsk pending instructions regarding the assignment of my place of residence.

Should it be deemed that I must learn of this in the chancellery of Your High Excellency, then in that case I petition for permission to obtain the required information by post, or even by telegram.

At the same time, I petition for the assignment of my place of residence, in view of the weakness of my health, within the boundaries of Yenisei Gubernia and, if possible, in the Krasnoyarsk or Minusinsk District.

Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov
City of Krasnoyarsk, March 6, 1897.

First published on May 21, 1926
in the newspaper *Sovetskaya Sibir* No. 115 Printed from the manuscript

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To His Excellency
Mr. Yenisei Governor
From Assistant Attorney-at-Law,
Administrative Exile on a Political Charge,
Vladimir Ulyanov

PETITION

Having no means of subsistence and being assigned to reside in the village of Shushenskoye, where I cannot expect to obtain any kind of earnings, I have the honour to request the grant of the allowance established by law for maintenance, lodging and clothing.

Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov
City of Krasnoyarsk, April 29, 1897.

I authorise the submission of this petition to the medical assistant Antonina Maximilianovna Rosenberg.

Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov

First published in 1928
in the journal
*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* No. 11-12 Printed from the manuscript

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To His High Honour
Mr. Minusinsk Police Officer
From Assistant Attorney-at-Law,
Political Administrative Exile,
Vladimir Ulyanov

PETITION

Having been assigned to reside in the village of Shushenskoye and having no possibility of obtaining any earnings there, I have the honour to request the grant of the allowance established by law for maintenance, clothing and lodging.

Town of Minusinsk, May 7, 1897.

Vladimir Ulyanov

First published in 1928
in the journal
*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* No. 11-12 Printed from the manuscript

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Telegram to His Excellency
Mr. Director of the Police Department
Sent to St. Petersburg

I have the honour to request permission for my fiancée Nadezhda Krupskaya to travel to the village of Shushenskoye.

Administrative Exile Ulyanov

Written January 8, 1898.
First published in 1934
in the journal *Krasny Arkhiv* No. 1 Printed from the text of the telegram

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To His Excellency
Mr. Head of Yenisei Gubernia
From Administrative Exile on a Political Charge,
Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,
residing in the village of Shushenskoye, Minusinsk District

PETITION

On May 7 of this year 1898, my fiancée, administrative exile Nadezhda Krupskaya, arrived in the village of Shushenskoye. Her original place of exile was assigned as Ufa Gubernia, but the Minister of the Interior permitted her to reside in the village of Shushenskoye on condition of her marrying me.

Immediately upon my fiancée's arrival, on May 10, 1898, I submitted a petition to Mr. Minusinsk District Police Officer requesting that a certificate for marriage be sent to me.

Since there was no reply to this petition, during my stay in the town of Minusinsk, around May 20, I personally appeared before Mr. Police Officer and repeated my request. Mr. Police Officer replied that he could not issue me the certificate because he did not have my personal record sheet, and that upon receipt of my personal record sheet the requested certificate would be sent. Despite this, I have not received the certificate even now, although more than a month and a half has passed since the petition was submitted. This incomprehensible delay acquires particular significance for me in view of the fact that my fiancée is being refused the grant of an allowance until she marries me (such is precisely the reply she received today, June 30, to her petition for the grant of an allowance). Thus an extremely strange contradiction arises: on the one hand, the higher administration, upon my petition, permits the transfer of my fiancée to the village of Shushenskoye and makes her immediate marriage a condition of this permission; on the other hand, I cannot in any way obtain from the local authorities the document without which the marriage cannot take place; and as a result, my fiancée, who is left without any means of subsistence, is found to be at fault.

On the basis of the foregoing, I have the honour most humbly to request Your Excellency to issue the appropriate instructions:
1) for the tracing of my personal record sheet or identity document, or for making an inquiry at the proper official place;
2) for the sending to me of the certificate or document required by law for entering into marriage.

Administrative Exile on a Political Charge,
Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov
Village of Shushenskoye, June 30, 1898.

First published
on April 23, 1929 in the newspaper
*Krasnoyarsky Rabochy* No. 92 Printed from the manuscript

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To His Excellency
Mr. Head of Yenisei Gubernia
From Administrative Exile on a Political Charge,
Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,
residing in the village of Shushenskoye, Minusinsk District

PETITION

I have the honour most humbly to request Your Excellency to permit me to come to the city of Krasnoyarsk for one week to consult a specialist in dental diseases.

The local doctor, after repeated unsuccessful attempts, has declared himself incompetent in this case, and there is currently no dentist in the town of Minusinsk.

Town of Minusinsk, August 12, 1898.

Assistant Attorney-at-Law Vladimir Ulyanov
To be submitted to Mr. Minusinsk District Police Officer.

First published on May 21, 1926
in the newspaper *Sovetskaya Sibir* No. 115 Printed from the manuscript

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To His Excellency
Mr. Director of the Police Department
From Hereditary Nobleman Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,
residing in the city of Pskov, on Arkhangelskaya Street,
in the Chernov house

PETITION

The Minister of the Interior has decreed that I be prohibited from residing, among other gubernias, in Ufa Gubernia. At present, my wife, Nadezhda Ulyanova, who is under open police surveillance, resides in the city of Ufa, and my petition (in my request of March 10 of this year) for permission for her to transfer to the city of Pskov was deemed not subject to satisfaction. According to the latest news I have received from my wife, she has fallen ill and is being treated by a local specialist in women's diseases, Dr. Fedotov; I mention the doctor's name so that my statement may be verified, and in case such verification is deemed necessary, I have the honour most humbly to request that an inquiry be made by telegram. My wife's illness requires persistent treatment, which, according to the doctors, will take no less than six weeks, and since her mother, who is with my wife, will soon have to leave the city of Ufa, my wife will be left alone, and this could have an extremely harmful effect on the course of her treatment.

On the basis of the foregoing, I have the honour most humbly to request permission to reside in the city of Ufa for a month and a half.

Hereditary Nobleman Vladimir Ulyanov
City of Pskov, April 20, 1900.

First published in 1929
in the journal
*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya* No. 11 Printed from the manuscript