21. III. 1918

Comrade Chicherin

The bearer — Comrade Maurice Leutheuser, personally known to me, a Bolshevik, would like to have the opportunity to go (having arranged, for example, a position at our mission in Italy) to Italy for propaganda abroad. I would very much request that you inform him and help him if there is an opportunity— 1 G. V. Chicherin — at this time Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR.

2 M. G. Leutheuser, son of the well-known revolutionary Bolshevik G. D. Leutheuser, party member from March 1917. In 1918 was part of the Soviet mission in Switzerland, then was sent to Stockholm.