V. I.

Lenin

210

To:   THE BUSINESS MANAGER OF THE C.P.C.

I am for using this palace as a museum. Get Sverdlov’s written
consent. [1]

Lenin

26/XI.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin wrote this instruction on a memo from the Department
of Museums and Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity
of the People’s Commissariat for Education, sent to the Managing
Department of the Council of People’s Commissars on November
26, 1918, asking that a number of premises of the Grand Palace
in the Kremlin be allocated for the requirements of the state
museums.

On December 12, 1918, the C.P.C. decreed “that, measures
be taken to use premises of the Grand Palace for a museum, in
particular for presenting a historic picture of the life of the tsars”.