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This is another letter written from prison.

This letter also was written from prison. Folder includes Natasha Lyandres' translation of the letter.

Letter is in Georgian.

The unidentified Katsi addresses Zianaida as her aunt.

Liuliu Shchepanskaia was a niece of Beso Chichinadze.

Pencilled in note on envelope indicates that the sender was a colleague of RNN.

Malvina Assirovna Rozenberg was a chemist, professor, and the wife of prominent chemist and academician, Lev V. Pisarzhevskii. 

Mamulashvili was a very well known florist near Tbilisi.

This letter would have been sent to Didi Dzhikhaishi soon after RNN parted with her husband in Odessa -- see the journals.

Nikolai Ivanovich Muskhelishvili (1891-1976) was a mathematician and RNN's brother-in-law.

Nina Mikhailovna Chernyshevskaia (1896-1975) was the granddaughter of Nikolai Chernyshevskii (a friend of Niko Nikoladze) and the director of the Chernyshevskii museum.

Letter is signed with the names: Natasha, Lida, Katia, and Zina.

Pencilled in note on envelope indicates that Zhordani was a student of Georgii Nikoladze.

Letter is typed.

Niko Iakovich Nikoladze was Vissarion's uncle.

Olga Aleksandrovna Nikoladze (1855-1940) was RNN's mother; her maiden name was Guramishvili.

Tamara Cherkezishvili was a distant relative of RNN.

Zinaida Aleksandrovna Chichinadze was the wife of Vissarion Chichinadze; her maiden name was Dekonskaia; letter is in Georgian.

Item is a draft of RNN's letter to the secretary of the Philosophy Institute of the Academia Nauk.

Indication on the envelope is that Dzidzadze was a chemist.