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A Caucasian, Soso, is writing to you -- do you remember me from 1904, in Tiflis and Baku? First of all, my warm greetings to Olga, to you, and to Germanov (I.M. Golubev told me all about you; I am spending my days in exile with him). Germanov knows me as Ko...b...a (he will understand). Could I have imagined that you were in Moscow and not abroad... Do you remember Gurgen (old Mikho)? He is now in Geneva... and is "recalling" the Social-Democratic Duma faction. The old fellow has taken to great things, devil take it! I have recently returned to exile (a "returnee"); my term ends in July of this year. Ilyich and Co. are calling me to one of the two centers without waiting for my term to expire. But I would prefer to serve out my term (a legal person has more scope), though if the need is urgent (I am waiting for their reply), I shall, of course, leave. But here we are suffocating without work, literally choking. You have, of course, heard about the foreign "tempest in a teacup": blocs -- Lenin-Plekhanov on one side, and Trotsky-Martov-Bogdanov on the other. The attitude of the workers toward the first bloc is, as far as I know, favorable. But in general the workers are beginning to look at the emigres with contempt: "Let them climb the walls to their hearts' content; but as we see it, whoever holds the interests of the movement dear will work, and the rest will follow." This, in my opinion, is all to the good. My address: Solvychegodsk, Vologda Province, to the political exile Iosif Dzhugashvili.

Ostrovsky, A.V. Who Stood Behind Stalin. pp. 337-338.

GAVO. F. 108. Op. 1. D. 5058. L. 2.

NOTE

Germanov -- M.I. Frumkin. Olga -- S.N. Ravich (?).