Date: 1921-09-03
Source: ru:PSS/v53
Source: CW vol 53

To V. A. Smolyaninov

Comrade Smolyaninov!

Read this and keep it strictly secret, do not show it to anyone 187.

N. M. Knipovich is not only a scientist of the first rank, but also an undoubtedly honest person.

It is necessary to carry out periodic checks at Glavryba to see how things are going there.

Send the following letter on official stationery (type it out) to N. M. Knipovich through his son Boris N. Knipovich (who lives here in Moscow, at the People's Commissariat of Agriculture):
To N. M. Knipovich

Dear Nikolai Mikhailovich! Thank you very much for your detailed letter of August 6th.

Of course, you are following the work of Glavryba. I would very much like you to send me from time to time notes on the progress of its work and practical suggestions if for some reason they are being "held up" at Glavryba.

With sincere respect, Lenin
September 3, 1921

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First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript