V. I.

Lenin

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TELEGRAM TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SIMBIRSK SOVIET [1]

Chairman of the Soviet
Simbirsk

Inform me by telegram of the circumstances and conditions of election of heads of Chuvash teachers’ seminaries
for men and women. I am interested in the fate of
Inspector Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev, who has worked for fifty
years for the advance of the Chuvash people and suffered
persecution from tsarism. I think Yakovlev should not be
torn away from his life’s work. [2]

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
At the top of the document Lenin wrote: “Please send the bill
for this telegram to me personally .”— Ed .

[2]

I. Y. Yakovlev established the first Chuvash school in the city of
Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), the birthplace of Lenin. He compiled
the first Chuvash alphabet and primer, and did a great deal
towards educating the Chuvash people.

In reply to his inquiry Lenin received a telegram on May 4,
1918, saying that Yakovlev continued as chairman of the courses
and seminary for women.