Document 137

Letter from L. Zarubina and Zh. Smirnova to Kalinin, March 1933

RGASPI, f. 78, op. 1, d. 456, l. 4. Original manuscript.

Hello Uncle Misha!

We send you warm greetings and all the best in your big projects. Uncle Misha, we recently heard about you that you are a good guy, everybody praises you and we felt like writing you a letter. You probably won't get angry at us that we wrote to you, but we badly want to see you and have a look at Moscow. We have never been anywhere but our village and never saw anything nice. We want to see the grave of sweet uncle Volodia [a diminutive form of Lenin's first name] too, and there are a lot of you good uncles there besides.

We saw in pictures and whenever somebody said they were in Moscow and saw everything, we listened with envy. Uncle Misha, write an answer to us right away. At least we will take a look at your letter, if we never get a chance to see you in person. Goodbye, we are looking forward to your answer. Give our regards to Uncle Stalin and all the others.

Liza Zarubina and Zhenia Smirnova. Our address: Village of Tropa, N. Tropa Village Soviet, Mimoshino Post Office, Volodarsk Raion, Ivanovo Industrial Oblast

Goodbye dear Uncle Misha