Dear M-me Shroderi It was a great pleasure for me to recievelyour letter, I admire all the work of M-r Rietveld and try to write as much about a8 * know,so that our rus - sian people should b«feett betteraquainted with hls art oWa i M . J (.fiïs interesting,original ideas. What you write about the reconstruction of old towns is very interesting. It is a theme, that is widely discussed in our Unèon, beeause we have many beautifull old towns, towns,that|Live now a new active lifetso that it is a whole problem to preserve the treasures of the past,not hindering the young and newy living 4ts own life y full of activity and creative forces. You say there are few dutch women architects of your age. I can say the same • though there is a lot of young women who have gone into the profession and have proved they are equal to men.Personally I am happy in navlng two freinds who hawt befcn at my si de- all ury life.We began learning archjtecture,here in Moscow long before World War Itin , the only private schóól of architecture for girls.There was only one other school of the sort in Petersburg then.Theee schools did not give us any rights.We faught for them and we believed thenythat we could move mountains.And we where right,beeause the zarist governement gave us rightsp^ön tne edge of the Revolution in Pebruary I9l7when feeling,that they were losing everything they played on popularity.All the three of us remained close frien?ts all our liff ,we mostly worked in Moscow,now we ar£ active in our „Union of architects. I hope you shall answer mr.I am sorry I could not an-swer sooner.JD was very occ.ipied beeause I had to go to Orenburg from our Institute and I wanted to have a lit-tle free time to gather ir y mind,for it is not an easy thing for me to write an english letter, r\V 1 -r / / As / Am/U t/*> Ö^^ % j