From the Interrogation Protocol of I.V. Dzhugashvili, March 26, 1910

Source: Tom 17

I do not consider myself a member of any political parties whatsoever. I have been living in Baku for about six months now. I lived here without registration. I slept wherever I happened to be. My situation was rather unstable. I was looking for some kind of position, but could not find one anywhere... In Baku I purchased from a person unknown to me a permanent passport booklet issued by the Baku Police Chief's Office in the name of Zakhari Krikorov Melikyants, but I did not live under it, as I was living without registration. The letter in Russian confiscated from me during the search is addressed to Petrovskaya; at the request of a certain woman, I had not yet managed to deliver it to Petrovskaya. I became acquainted with Stefania Leandrovna Petrovskaya while in exile in the town of Solvychegodsk, Vologda Province. The printed sheet confiscated from me during the search — a copy of "The Commission on Industrial Hygiene of the Baku Medical Society" — was given to me by a person unknown to me at the club called "Knowledge Is Power" in Chorny Gorod. The scrap of paper from a form for reporting budget information to the Commission on Industrial Hygiene of the Baku Medical Society. I did not reside in the fortress at building No. 495 and never possessed a passport in the name of Oganes Vartanov Totomyants. I never lived with Petrovskaya at all and was never in cohabitation with her.

Source: A.V. Ostrovsky, "Who Stood Behind Stalin," pp. 326–327.

RGASPI. Fond 558. Inventory 4. File 635. Sheets 41 verso–42.