7.1. 1919 г.

Petrograd. Smolny. To Zinoviev

According to Lunacharsky, the members of the Extraordinary Commission for Children's Village Afanasyev, Kormilitsyn and others have been found guilty of drunkenness, raping women and a number of similar crimes; I demand that all the accused be arrested, that no one be released, that the names of special investigators be sent to me, for if in such a case the guilty are not discovered and shot, an unheard-of disgrace will fall on the Petersburg Council of Commissars. Afanasyev is to be arrested.

Chairman of the People's Commissar

Lenin.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 8196 - autograph. 158