10. V. 1919
Simbirsk

To Gubernia Executive Committee
Copy to Cheka

Report the reasons for the arrest and the evidence against Vyacheslav and
Vasily Lvovich Persiyanov

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin
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1 The former landowners, the Persiyanov brothers, were arrested by the Simbirsk
Gubernia Cheka in the spring of 1919. In response to V. I. Lenin's inquiry about the reasons for their
arrest, the chairman of the Simbirsk Gubernia Executive Committee, M. A. Gimov,
telegraphed on 13 May 1919 that Vyacheslav and Vasily Persiyanov
had been arrested as hostages and were subject to deportation from the
front-line zone.
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