V. I.

Lenin

People’s Commissar Antonov, Kharkov

Your telegram received. I welcome the adherence of the
Cossacks, [1] whose delegates are already here and have
joined the Congress of Soviets. As regards Mogilev, I have
just informed Podvoisky and shall also inform Krylenko;
as for the land question on the Don, I advise you to bear
in mind the text of the resolution adopted the day before
yesterday at the Congress of Soviets on the federation of
the Soviet
Republics. [2] This resolution should fully reassure the Cossacks. Please inform the Secretariat that
Zatonsky has left for Kharkov; and that, when leaving, he
asked Comrade Artyom to be appointed his deputy. Reply immediately.

Lenin