Bern, March 14, 1915.

Hereby I confirm that Boris Vigilev has long been a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and is personally known to me as an emigrant persecuted by Tsarism.

By order of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party
N. Lenin (Wl. Ulyanov)

Wl. Ulyanov. Distelweg 11. Bern

TRANSLATION

Bern, March 14, 1915.

I hereby confirm that Boris Vigilev has long been a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and is personally known to me as an emigrant persecuted by Tsarism.

By order of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party
N. Lenin (Wl. Ulyanov)

Wl. Ulyanov. Distelweg 11. Bern

¹ B. D. Vigilev—participated in the revolutionary movement from 1902. From 1909 he lived in Zakopane (Galicia). Was an active figure in the Krakow union for aid to political prisoners.