Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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To: THE PRESIDING COMMITTEE OF THE FRONTLINE CONGRESS^[1]

To the Presiding Committee of Delegates of the Frontline Congress

Written: Written not later than April 29 (May 12), 1917
Published: First published in 1918 in the hook Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks). Petrograd City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks). April 1917. Minutes, p. 364, Note 175. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [1977], Moscow, Volume 43, page 631^b.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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Dear Comrades,

I received your invitation and thank you for it with all my heart. I regret that I am absolutely unable to attend your congress today in view of my commitments to the All-Russia conference of our Party.

The conference proceedings have dragged out, there will probably be an all-night sitting, and I cannot get away for a minute. Please forgive me.

With comradely greetings,
N. Lenin

Notes

[1] The frontline congress of delegates from the army in the field was held in Petrograd from April 24 to May 4 (May 7–17), 1917.