Stalin to Alliyuveva

Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.

Stalin Correspondences

I. V. Stalin - O. E. Alliluyeva

November 25 [1915]

25/XI

For Olga Evgenievna ¹

I am very, very grateful to you, dear Olga Evgenievna, for your kind and pure feelings for me. I will never forget your caring attitude towards me! I am waiting for the moment when I will be released from exile and, having arrived in St. Petersburg, I personally thank you, as well as Sergey, for everything. After all, I only have two years left.

I've received the parcel. Thanks to. I ask only one thing - do not spend more on me: you yourself need the money. I will also be pleased if you send open letters from time to time with views of nature and so on. In this accursed land, nature is ugly to the point of ugliness - a river in summer, snow in winter, that's all that nature gives here - and I foolishly yearned for views of nature, even on paper.

My regards guys and girls. I wish them all the best.

I live like before. I feel good. Quite healthy - must be accustomed to the local nature. And our nature is harsh: three weeks ago, the frost reached 45 degrees.

Until the next letter.

Yours, Joseph

RTSKHIDNI. F. 558. On. 1. D. 55 L. 1-2. Autograph.

Notes:

¹ . The letter was written in exile, in the village of Kureika, Yenisei province, Turukhansk region, and sent to St. Petersburg. O. E. Alliluyeva is the wife of a worker, a member of the Bolshevik Party S. Ya. Alliluyev. The youngest daughter of the Alliluyevs, Nadezhda, became Stalin's wife in the spring of 1918.