Letter to Hermann Lopatin, April 3, 1878

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	3 April 1878

First published, in Russian, in Istoriya SSSR, No. 6, Moscow, 1959
Printed according to Lopatin's letter to Lavrov of 17 April 1878
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45

ENGELS TO HERMANN LOPATIN^[1]

IN PARIS

[London, 3 April 1878]

... My warmest regards to Lavrov. I was glad to see that his excellent article in the last issue of Vperyod!^[2] had been translated for the Vorwärts; it will not be without effect.^[3] Unfortunately my eye is in rather a delicate condition, which prevents my reading Russian; Russian characters always hurt my eye; let's hope it doesn't persist...

↑ This letter has come down to us as an extract quoted by Lopatin in French in his letter to Lavrov of 17 April 1878. He also rendered in Russian the substance of the other two parts of Engels' letter:
'He wrote to me to ask for a photograph of the women condemned in the trial of the 50 for Bracke's almanach for 1879. He also wants me to write an article about this trial or about the recent Russian movement, about 16 large-sized pages, for 160 marks=200 francs;
'Engels writes that England shows all signs of an approaching industrial and commercial crisis, which will be a worthy consummation of all separate European crashes: Austrian, Prussian, Russian, etc. So far, two main industries have been severely affected: the cotton industry and the production of iron. The general crash will possibly be delayed until August or September.'
↑ Vperyod! (Forward!)
↑ Vperyod! (Vol. V, 1877, pp. 1-120) featured the article 'The Outcome of the Reforms. Surveys of the Successes of Economic Exploitation in Russia over Recent Years'. As is clear from Lopatin's letter to Engels of 23 April 1878, its author was Nikolai Kulyabko-Koretsky (pen-name Dahl). The Vorwärts published its German translation under the heading 'Die Folgen der czaristischen Reformen' between 15 February and 15 March 1878.

[1] This letter has come down to us as an extract quoted by Lopatin in French in his letter to Lavrov of 17 April 1878. He also rendered in Russian the substance of the other two parts of Engels' letter:
'He wrote to me to ask for a photograph of the women condemned in the trial of the 50 for Bracke's almanach for 1879. He also wants me to write an article about this trial or about the recent Russian movement, about 16 large-sized pages, for 160 marks=200 francs;
'Engels writes that England shows all signs of an approaching industrial and commercial crisis, which will be a worthy consummation of all separate European crashes: Austrian, Prussian, Russian, etc. So far, two main industries have been severely affected: the cotton industry and the production of iron. The general crash will possibly be delayed until August or September.'

[2] Vperyod! (Forward!)

[3] Vperyod! (Vol. V, 1877, pp. 1-120) featured the article 'The Outcome of the Reforms. Surveys of the Successes of Economic Exploitation in Russia over Recent Years'. As is clear from Lopatin's letter to Engels of 23 April 1878, its author was Nikolai Kulyabko-Koretsky (pen-name Dahl). The Vorwärts published its German translation under the heading 'Die Folgen der czaristischen Reformen' between 15 February and 15 March 1878.

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