17 February 1918

To the Commissar of the Nikolaevsky Station[1]

I request that a first-class sleeping berth (car No. 242) be provided on the train departing at 8 p.m. for Kharkov on 17 February 1918 for the seriously ill Maria Nikolaevna Skrypnik, Secretary of the Council of People’s Commissars, traveling to Kiev for recuperation[2].

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars