Dear Alexei Maximovich!

We grieve with you and share the sorrow that has so unexpectedly and cruelly befallen us all. We believe that your indestructible, Gorky-like spirit and great will shall overcome this grievous trial.

We express our deep condolences to Nadezhda Alexeevna.

I. STALIN V. MOLOTOV K. VOROSHILOV

S. ORDZHONIKIDZE

M. KALININ

V. KUIBYSHEV

A. MIKOYAN

A. ZHDANOV

Pravda. May 12, 1934.

Note: Gorky's son, Maxim Alexeevich Peshkov, died on May 11, 1934 of lobar pneumonia at the age of 36.