Dear Comrade!

Source: PSS vol. 53

I am very grateful to you for the news about Lalayants. I am deeply sorry that he has turned out to be outside the ranks of the RCP.

If possible, I would ask you to write to me in greater detail about why he stands outside the party, when he left it, how he lived under Kolchak in Siberia, and so forth.

Since you think it would be useful to draw him into Soviet work, I would also ask you to write to me whether you believe he needs to seek work in Irkutsk, or whether it is possible and expedient elsewhere, perhaps in Moscow.

With communist greetings, Lenin

Dictated by telephone
5 September 1921 copies

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the typewritten copy