INSTRUCTION ON SENDING GUARDS
TO THE TAURIDE PALACE
December 9 (22), 1917
To Kazantsev, Acting Commander of the
Petrograd District
It is ordered to send guards to the Tauride Palace according to the instructions of the head of security, Blagonravov

1 or the commandant
Prigorovsky
2.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
1 G. I. Blagonravov – Extraordinary Military Commissar for the Protection
of Petrograd, Commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
2 M. V. Prigorovsky – Commandant of the Tauride Palace.

RESPONSE BY DIRECT WIRE FROM N. V. KRYLENKO

December 11 (24), 1917
We agree with your policy. We agree to the election of the Commander-in-Chief. Upon departure, transfer the order to the most energetic people so that in Kharkov, as soon as possible, there would be more fully reliable troops and so that the movement goes on, not stopping at any obstacles and any other considerations.
Lenin

We are extremely concerned about the sluggish movement of troops from the front to Kharkov. Take all measures, up to the most revolutionary, for the most energetic movement of troops and in large numbers to Kharkov.
Lenin
Printed from the text of the telegraph tape
1 In a direct wire conversation, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
N. V. Krylenko reported on the situation at the front, the struggle against the Central Rada and the entry of our troops into Kharkov, measures to strengthen the army, the All-Army Congress, which took place during this
period at Headquarters and raised the issue of the election of the Commander-in-Chief. Krylenko
also reported on the need for his trip to Petrograd to report
to the Council of People's Commissars.

LETTER TO YA. A. BERZIN

[1917, December, before 24 (January 6, 1918)]
Dear Pavel Vasilyevich!
Received your letter. I answer – forgive me in haste.
You need to be treated and treated.
I don't advise you to go yet.
For the Constituent Assembly we will call:
name the nearest phone and repeat the letter. Rest for now.
Your Lenin
1 Ya. A.
Berzin (pseudonym - Pavel Vasilyevich), who was at this time in Finland, in the "Halila" sanatorium, in a letter to V. I. Lenin
wrote about the state of his health, and also reported that in connection with the election of him as a member of the Constituent Assembly, he would have to go to Petrograd.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES with V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

[January 3 (16), 1918]
Vlad. Ilyich, Please tell me exactly, right now, on what date you spoke at the Mikhailovsky Manege and at what time they shot at you
2.
Vl. Bonch-Bruevich
I don't remember. Check the newspapers.

1917 (DECEMBER) - 1918

1 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich – an active participant in the October Uprising
in
Petrograd; was the commandant of the
Smolny - Tauride district, the chairman of the commission
on
combating pogroms, banditry and counter-revolution. In 1917-1920 – Manager of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars.
2 This refers to the assassination attempt on V. I. Lenin on the night of December 31, 1917
to January 1, 1918, when, accompanied by the Swiss communist
F. Platten, he was returning from a meeting. F. Platten covered Vladimir Ilyich's head and was wounded in the arm.
On the night of January 2 (15) to 3 (16), 1918, an extraordinary
meeting of the Council of People's Commissars was held, at which the issue of opening the Constituent
Assembly and the assassination attempt on
V. I.
Lenin was discussed.
The commissars congratulated V. I. Lenin on escaping the danger that threatened him.
The Council of People's Commissars recognized the need to appeal with a warning that
"the workers' and peasants' government will respond with terror if there are repeated attempts on representatives of the Council of People's Commissars" (CPA IML under
the Central Committee of the CPSU).

EXCHANGE OF NOTES with M. S. URITSKY
[January 5 (18), 1918]
To Uritsky:
At what time was the volley fired?
10?
К M - l O J i ?
What is the location of Shpalernaya?
Between Liteiny and Znamenskaya?
Not far from Liteiny in the direction of the Tauride Approximately
at
10*4 -10*4 between Voskresenskaya and Tauricheskaya along Shpalernaya. The glass
broke on the left side. The volley was from above, apparently, from the right.
M.U.
[Palace]?
Answer here!
Lenin
1 M. S. Uritsky in November 1917 was appointed commissioner
over the "All-Russian
Commission on Elections to the
Constituent
Assembly."
The note was written on the day of the opening of the Constituent
Assembly.