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Archival collections of the Presidential Center of the UDP RK: the original correspondence of figures of the Soviet period

Archival collections of the Presidential Center of the UDP RK: the original correspondence of figures of the Soviet period

A manuscript of a letter from the Soviet political and statesman Lenin V.I. to the writer M.M. Gorky.

The letter was written on August 25, 1912, and sent from Krakow (Poland) to the island of Capri (Italy). The correspondence tells about the activities of the revolutionary movement in the territory of the Russian Empire, in which Lenin V.I. shares with Gorky M.M. his suggestions and thoughts about the current situation in the workers' and peasants' environment of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the interaction of the revolutionary movement of Russia with the emigrant communist bloc. 

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (real name Ulyanov) was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Ulyanovsk region (Russian Federation). A political and statesman, the creator of the Soviet Socialist state, one of the leaders of the international communist movement.

Maxim Maximovich Gorky (real name Alexey Maximovich Peshkov) was born on March 28, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation). He was a Soviet writer, publicist, novelist and playwright.

He is the author of the play "At the Bottom", the novel "Mother" and the novels Childhood", "In People" and "My Universities". 

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