April 8, 1918
Comrade Sverdlov and Comrade Sereda

The bearer — Comrade Kharlov, who has worked in the peasant Soviets of Pskov Province for 11 months, an agronomist by profession with 5 years of practical experience. Member of the Bolshevik party since 1905 (registered in Petrograd on Vasilievsky Island from March 1917). I request that you have a conversation with him about work in the Commissariat of Agriculture and about his possible participation in it.

Lenin

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript