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To His Excellency the City Governor of Baku, from the detainee held in custody at the Bailov Prison, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

PETITION

From my wife [S.L. Petrovskaya -- Ed.], who visited the Gendarme Administration the other day, I learned that the Chief of the Gendarme Administration, in forwarding my case to the office of Your Excellency, considers it necessary for his part to have me exiled to Yakutsk Province. Not understanding such a severe measure in my case and believing that insufficient knowledge of the history of my case may have given rise to undesirable misunderstandings, I deem it not superfluous to inform Your Excellency of the following.

The first time I was exiled (by administrative order) to Irkutsk Province was in 1903 for three years. In 1904, I fled from exile; the following year (1905), I was amnestied. The second time I was exiled to Vologda Province for two years, and at my very first interrogation, at the end of April or beginning of May 1908, I candidly declared to Captain Borovkov and Chief Zaitsev about my escape from exile in 1904, about the amnesty, and so on, as can easily be verified by examining the relevant protocol taken by the aforementioned officers of the Gendarme Administration. Incidentally, the result of this declaration of mine was the aforementioned exile to Vologda Province, since nothing objectionable was found on my person, and there was no evidence beyond my living under someone else's identity papers. In 1909, I left Vologda Province without authorization, which I reported to the Gendarme Administration officers upon my arrest. Moreover, nothing objectionable was found on my person.

In making this statement, I most humbly request Your Excellency to take it into consideration when reviewing my case.

Iosif Dzhugashvili. 30 June 1910.

Ostrovsky, A.V. Who Stood Behind Stalin. p. 330.

IPP. F. 456. Op. 14. D. 110-113. L. 1-3.