Source: Tom 17

Hello, Tatka!

How was the journey -- did it go without incident? How are the little ones, Satanka?

Zina (Z.G. Ordzhonikidze -- Ed.) has arrived (without Kirov's wife). She settled at Zenzinovka -- she considers it better there than at Puzanovka. Well -- very nice.

Here with us everything goes on as usual: playing gorodki, playing skittles, more gorodki, and so on. Molotov has already managed to visit us twice, and his wife, it seems, has gone off somewhere.

That is all for now.

Kisses.

Iosif

9/IX.31

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Source: Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of the Family. From the Personal Archive, p. 35. AP RF F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1550. L. 52.