Copy to the Chairman of the Astrakhan Provincial Party Committee

Comrade Kolesnikova

You have been repeatedly demanded to depart here at once. Sverdlov sent you personally many

* The last phrase of the telegram and signatures were written by hand by Ya. M. Sverdlov. Ed.

** In this edition it was erroneously indicated that the telegram was written by Ya. M. Sverdlov. Ed.

telegrams. If you do not depart at once, you will be expelled from the Party.

To the Astrakhan comrades I transmit that they must cease all friction and unite for military affairs.

Those who fail to comply with this order will be tried under the laws of wartime.

Lenin

copies

Written 7 or 8 January 1919

Sent to Astrakhan

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typescript