V. I.   Lenin

185

To:   V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH[1]


Published: First published in 1958 in the book: Slavniye Bolshevichki (Outstanding Bolshevik Women), Moscow. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 150b.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive.   You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work, as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.README


1/X. 1918

Dear Vladimir Dmitrievich,

Only this morning I heard the awful news. I cannot travel to Moscow, but I should like, if only in a letter, to grip your hand hard, very hard, to express my love and the love of all of us for Vera Mikhailovna, and to give you at least a little support, insofar as anyone can do so, in your terrible grief. Take good care of your daughter’s health. Once more, a strong, firm handshake.

Yours,
V. Lenin


Notes

[1] This letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich was written in connection with the death on September 30, 1918, of his wife, V. M. Velichkina-Bonch-Bruyevich, a member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Health.


< backward   forward >
Works Index   |   Volume 44 | Collected Works   |   L.I.A. Index