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Primary Sources

(1) Nadezhda Krupskaya later described to a friend her time with Lenin in Siberia.

We were young then, we had just got married, we loved each other passionately.

For a time nothing else existed for us. And he would have us doing nothing but translating the Webbs.

(2) Lydia Dan, the sister of Jules Martov and the wife of Fedor Dan, was in Munich with Nadezhda Krupskaya and Lenin in 1901.

On Sundays w e usually had lunch together in some large beer hall, where Lenin very attentively examined the menu and selected a good portion of meat, such as he probably never got at home during the week for Krupskaya was not much of a cook.

Lenin children

He drank beer with pleasure, teasing me because I drank mineral water rather than beer in Munich. Finally, he would declare that he was at our disposal and was ready, if it pleased us, to go for a walk. However, he never forgot to make it a condition - one which we accepted with varying degrees of pleasure - that we