1917 (DECEMBER) — 1918

1 V. I. Lenin's speech took place during the discussion of the theses
of the Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of National Economy V. P. Milyutin on labor conscription.

ORDER TO N. I. MURALOV

31. III. 1918
Comrade Muralov
I propose that measures be taken to ensure that a printing machine is released from the Ryabushinsky
2 printing house, requisitioned for the Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers
3.
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. He published the newspaper "Utro Rossii", expressing the interests of the big bourgeoisie. After the victory of the October Revolution, he emigrated to France, where he conducted counter-revolutionary activities against the Soviet state.
3 The document contains a note that V. I. Lenin's order was carried out on April 2, 1918.

LETTER TO T. I. POPOV

1. IV. 1918
To Comrade T. I. Popov, Manager of the Moscow Office of the State Bank
I ask you to take note that the storage of the gold reserve lies entirely on your responsibility, and all communications on matters pertaining thereto must be made by you directly with me or with Comrade Gukovsky
2, while the communication of any information to other institutions and persons is absolutely prohibited.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

1 T. I. Popov – after the October Revolution, manager of the Moscow Office of the State Bank, then manager of the People's Bank.
2 N. E. Gukovsky – after the October Revolution, Deputy People's Commissar and People's Commissar of Finance, then Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Estonia.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

1/IV - 1918
Comrade
Chicherin
I attach a telegram.
In my opinion, we must answer immediately:
We will immediately make inquiries; we are sure that your
in- formation is erroneous, etc. and so on.
And talk to Peter on the phone immediately.
Lenin
1 The note was apparently written simultaneously with the telegram sent on April 1, 1918, to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Petrograd Labor Commune, to the effect that a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars should be issued on the immediate recall of Red Guard detachments that had penetrated into Finland against the will of the Soviet authorities, with an urgent request to communicate the exact text of this resolution (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Works, volume 50, pages 54–55).

NOTE TO P. P. MALINOVSKY

1/IV. 1918
Comrade Malinovsky!
Please be so kind as to speak with the bearer, Comrade Gorbunov,
secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, about a construction plan
2.
Greetings!
Lenin
1 P. P. Malinovsky was the temporary deputy of the People's Commissar of Property of the Republic.
2 It concerns the preparation of buildings for the accommodation of government institutions in connection with the relocation of the government from Petrograd to Moscow.