Letter to Vera Zasulich, January 30, 1895

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 30 January 1895


First published, in Russian, in Gruppa 'Osvobozhdeniye Truda, No. 1, 1924
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO VERA ZASULICH

IN LONDON

London, 30 January 1895

Dear citizeness Vera,

I shall certainly be at home either tomorrow between 3 and 5, or Friday[1] from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, when I shall be happy to see you.

The book by G. Plekhanov[2] is quite to the purpose; today the newspapers announce that Nicholas has just declared to the Zemstvos he abides as firmly as his father by tsarist autocracy.[3] There is no remedy against the folly of princes. So much the better if Georgi has made a furore.

Always yours,

F. E.

  1. ↑ 1 February
  2. ↑ [name in Russian] The Development of the Monist View of History, put out in St. Petersburg under the pen name of N. Beltov [name in Russian]. Alexander II
  3. ↑ [word in Russian] [phrase in Russian]