Telegram Extending Condolences on A.
Tolstoy’s Death
(March 6, 1945)
Moscow, Comrade [Andrei] Zhdanov, chairman of the Writers Association of the
Soviet Union:
I am distressed to learn of the passing away of the famous Soviet writer, Aleksei
Nikolaievich Tolstoy. I express my condolences.
Mao Zedong
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 7, p. 251, where it is reproduced from the March
8, 1945, issue of Jiefang ribao.