Légende

Lenin's letter applying for a ticket to the British Museum's Reading Room, 21 April 1902. '30 Holford Square, Pentonville [London] WC. To the Director of the British Museum. Sir, I beg to apply for a ticket of admission to the Reading Room of the British Museum. I came from Russia in order to study the land question. I enclose the reference letter of Mr Mitchell. Believe me, Sir, to be Yours faithfully, Jacob Richter'. 'Jacob Richter' was the pseudonym Lenin had adopted to throw the Tsarist police off his track. The reference required was supplied by the General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, I. H. Mitchell, but this did not satisfy the Admissions Office as Mitchell's home address could not be found in the London street directories. Lenin wrote again enclosing another recommendation from Mitchell, who this time used the address of his union's headquarters. The following day Lenin was informed that a Reader's Ticket would be granted to him, and four days later he signed the Admissions Register and was issued with a ticket.

Date

1902

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_106

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,6Mo (3,1Mo) / 28,2cm x 44,9cm / 3334 x 5306 (300dpi)

Mots clés

library historical politics country research letter museum political text location British Museum century Russia Russian handwriting communism concept correspondence B&W British Library application lettering REQUEST black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century history historic Reading Room manuscript Vladimir Ilich Lenin Lenin VI Lenin Jacob Richter Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin Vladimir Ilich Richter Jacob Heritage Art Ulyanov Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Vladimir Ilich Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov