Letter to N.S. Alliluyeva, June 21, 1930

Source: Tom 17

Tatka!

Write something. Be sure to write and send it through the NKID channel, addressed to Tovstukha (at the CC). How was your journey, what have you seen, have you been to the doctors, what is the doctors' opinion about your health, and so on -- write.

We will open the Congress on the 26th. Things are going quite well for us.

It is very dull here, Tatochka. I sit at home alone, like an owl. I have not gone to the countryside yet -- too much work. I have finished my own task. I plan to go out to the countryside to see the children tomorrow or the day after.

Well, goodbye. Don't stay away too long, come back soon.

Ki-ss-es

Yours,

Iosif.

Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of His Family. From the Personal Archive. P. 29.

AP RF. F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1550. L. 30.

NOTE

This refers to Alliluyeva's trip in June-August 1930 to Karlsbad and then to visit her brother Pavel in Berlin. Concerning this, V.F. Alliluyev (nephew of N.S. Alliluyeva) writes: "Nadezhda was developing a serious illness -- ossification of the cranial sutures. The illness began to progress, accompanied by depression and attacks of headache. All this had a noticeable effect on her mental state. She even went to Germany for a consultation with leading German neurologists. This trip was arranged for her by Pavel Sergeyevich, who was working at the time as trade representative in Germany. The doctors prescribed complete rest for her and forbade her to engage in any work" (Alliluyev V.F. The Alliluyevs -- Stalin: Chronicle of a Family. Moscow, 2002. P. 30).