25/I -- 1925

Greetings, mama -- my own!

I know you are upset with me, but what can I do -- I am terribly busy and cannot write to you often.

Day and night I am up to my neck in work, and that is why I do not gladden you with letters.

May you live a thousand years.

Your

Soso.

Iosif Stalin in the Embrace of Family. From the Personal Archive. P. 10.

AP RF F. 45. Op. 1. D. 1549. L. 21-22.