To the Soviet
Shaumyan

I received your letter of 13/IV today via Boytsov. Reply via Astrakhan by wire or via Kushka and Tashkent—let me know whether you received my telegram, whether Kobozev has arrived, and what your situation is now.

Lenin

Written 29 April 1918

First published in 1957

Printed from the manuscript

[in the book "The Bolsheviks in the Struggle for the Victory of the Socialist Revolution in Azerbaijan," Baku]