31 May 1920

To Lydia
Alexandrovna

Give me the tape immediately and I will reply.
((Detain Kirov here.)) 9:25 p.m.**.

Lenin

* The note was made on a telegram containing a request to set a time for negotiations over direct wire.
** On 29 May S. M. Kirov was appointed plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR to Menshevik Georgia. Before leaving Moscow he received directives directly from Lenin. In this case Lenin is arranging with the secretary (L. A. Fotieva) the time for one of his personal conversations with Comrade Kirov.

1920

TELEGRAMS
TO THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD
GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE