A personal letter for Vanya and Varvara Ivanovna. We request that it be transmitted to them immediately and to them alone.

The news of the "victory" of the one ejected threw us into astonishment.199 Surely it was not enough that Kasyan's departure and a barb should have caused the Iskrovtsy to lose their capacity to act?

The protest of the one ejected could have led only to this: that you propose to him to cast his vote and then immediately announce by majority, in the first place, that he is in an insignificant minority on the substance of the question; in the second place, that his complaint about violation of the statutes is nonsensical and querulous (for according to the statutes one must poll all those present in Petersburg, and not hold up the matter waiting for a poll of those who have absented themselves).

If, however, the one ejected raised (dared to raise) the question of demarcation, then it was obligatory to immediately adopt by majority a resolution on his expulsion from the Union.

* The letter is a postscript to a letter from N. K. Krupskaya. Ed.

** Sonya — a conspiratorial name for the Iskra center in Samara. Ed.

*** Regarding whom the reference is made has not been established. Ed.