V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v49;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear Comrade, Letter No. 1 (of April 22-23) was received today, April 21, Old Style...

The money (2,000) from Kozlovsky has been received. The packets have not been received so far. Newspapers from the provinces arrive terribly irregularly, so that we ourselves do not have complete sets, but only odd numbers. In all, there are about fifteen Bolshevik newspapers: in Helsingfors, Kronstadt, Kharkov, Kiev, Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Saratov, and other cities. In Moscow the daily newspaper *Sotsial-Demokrat* is published. In Kharkov, Kronstadt, and Helsingfors there are also daily newspapers. Tomorrow the All-Russian Conference begins; up to 300 delegates are expected. In Petrograd everything is seething; since yesterday there have been meetings and demonstrations over the government’s note. It is extremely difficult to organise amid all this ferment. Everyone is up to their necks in work. It is not easy to arrange matters with couriers, but we shall take all measures nonetheless. A man is leaving specially now to organise the whole business; we hope he will succeed in getting everything arranged. Telegrams take an awfully long time; even within the country telegraphic communications are hampered. In view of the man’s departure, no telegram was sent acknowledging receipt of Letter No. 1. We shall take measures regarding Steinberg.

Greetings to Radek. Today is such a hectic day that we cannot write a detailed letter or resolutions about the conference, etc. You will learn everything from *Pravda*, which we are sending. Telegrams do not get through. The question of organising telegraphic communications therefore remains open. Communications must be arranged by other means. What news have you of Platten? Has he returned and did he travel safely?

All kinds of greetings.

Reports have just come in of huge demonstrations, shooting, etc.

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Written April 21 (May 4), 1917

Sent from Petrograd

to Stockholm

First published in 1923

in the journal

*Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya*, No. 9

Printed from a typewritten

copy (perlustration)