Comrade Muralov

I propose that measures be taken for the printing press, requisitioned for the Expedition of State Paper Procurement, to be released from the printing house of Ryabushinsky.²

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

¹ N. I. Muralov — in 1918 — commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District.

² P. P. Ryabushinsky — a major Moscow banker and industrialist, one of the ringleaders of the counter-revolution. Published the newspaper *Utro Rossii*, which expressed the interests of the big bourgeoisie. After the victory of the October Revolution emigrated to France, where he carried out counter-revolutionary activities against the Soviet state.

³ There is a note on the document that V. I. Lenin's order was carried out on April 2, 1918.