V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTES
Not earlier than August 26, 1918

The merchant Antonov, a big fish industrialist (Rasin knows him), has brought 140 carloads of fish (where to? where from?), and is selling it to Petrograd at 240 rubles per pood.

Gorky proposes to take this fish from him in order to help the starving Petrograd workers.

My permission is required to transport it to Petrograd:

1) permission must be given in the name of Makhlip and Antonov.
Makhlip is one of the Petrograd grain dealers (Andreyev vouches that there is no speculation in this case)—and

2) payment to be made in Petrograd at 240 rubles (without advances);

3) she (Gorky) vouches that it is not above the official price.

Gorky asks me to release N. M. Romanov and G. M. Romanov (own brothers) on bail.

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In a letter to Clara Zetkin on July 26, 1918, V. I. Lenin wrote: “They have just brought me the new state seal. Here is an impression. The inscription reads: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Workers of the world, unite!” (Lenin Miscellany XXI, p. 249).