Letter to Pyotr Lavrov, June 30, 1876

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 30 June 1876


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Printed according to the original
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45


ENGELS TO PYOTR LAVROV

IN LONDON

London, 30 June 1876

My dear Mr Lavrov,

To console you for the ban placed by Mr Bismarck on Vpered'c in Germany, I must inform you that, six days since, I saw it on public display in bookshop windows in Heidelberg.1'4 Mr Bismarck in the original.

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has not yet discovered a way of teaching all his policemen the letters of the Russian alphabet.

Yours ever,

F. Engels

  1. a Truth comes out in wine.