1917 (HEEtAKPb) – 1918
YEARS

the seminary—and the fate of Inspector I. Ya. Yakovlev, who had devoted fifty years to the national awakening of the Chuvash people and endured persecution under the Tsarist regime
(see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 50, p. 61).
2 V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich.

TELEGRAM TO G. E. ZINOVIEV
[May 11, 1918]
Petrograd, To Zinoviev
We are doing everything in our power, Comrade.
I have just received a telegram from Ufa:
“Tomorrow we will begin urgent loading operations.
By scheduled train, we will dispatch twenty thousand poods of flour and rye
to Moscow and the Moscow region—also the same quantity to Petrograd, to the Petrograd area.
In total, forty thousand poods.”
Chairman Yeltsin.
Lenin
Printed from a typewritten copy.
1 The discussion concerns the organization of food aid for Moscow and Petrograd, as well as for the surrounding provinces.
G. E. Zinoviev was, at this time, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.

NOTICE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

May 14, 1918
Comrade Chicherin!
I recommend
to you a most reliable individual, Comrade
Kinkel
 
2.
Treat him with complete trust and listen to him attentively.
Greetings! Lenin
1 The notice was written
by V. I. Lenin following his conversation with Kinkel about the possibility of employing him in diplomatic or propaganda work within Soviet missions in Germany, Hungary, or Bulgaria.
2 Kinkel was a Swiss Social Democrat.
V. I. Lenin frequently turned to him for assistance as a German-language interpreter, particularly during the period leading up to the conference of left-wing Social Democrats in Bern in September 1915.


TELEGRAM TO YEKATERINBURG
TO THE REGIONAL SOVIET OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES
[May 21, 1918]
I earnestly request that you extend every possible form of assistance—in all respects—to my dear comrades who have rendered me great services:
Citizeness
Hildur Haikonen
 
1.
Her address is Hotel Metropol, Yekaterinburg; her brother
Alexander Haikonen, her comrades Paul Palmfelt, Anna Ovan, and Heinrich Peter-
sen. Please inform us how and in what ways you have helped them.
Chairman of the Sovnarkom, Lenin
Printed from the telegraph form.
1 Hildur Haikonen was a veteran of the Finnish Communist Party, the sister of Latukki’s wife—whose family provided lodging for V. I. Lenin in the autumn of 1917, during the final period of his underground activities. Lenin’s telegram was a response to Haikonen’s request for assistance in helping her and her relatives leave the country; on May 25, 1918, she sent Lenin a telegram expressing her gratitude for his support.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. A. FOTIEVA

[May 22, 1918]
Will the minutes of the Small Council be approved today?
No.
(
*Yesterday’s minutes include a provision for an allocation of 1 million rubles to the Samara SNKh.
\ The people of Samara are waiting anxiously for a decision. Perhaps we could consider this item first?
Pravdin

or
Petrovsky
3 should take the floor to address the agenda.
1 The correspondence between V. I. Lenin and SNK Secretary L. A. Fotieva took place during the Sovnarkom session on May 22, 1918. The Small Council’s decision to allocate 1,000,000 rubles to the Samara Sovnarkhoz for the purpose of supporting nationalized enterprises had been adopted on May 21, but was officially ratified at the SNK session on May 24, 1918.
2 A. G. Pravdin was Deputy People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs.
3 G.
I.
Petrovsky served as People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR from 1917 to 1919.
* Lenin circled the phrase “In yesterday’s…” from L. A. Fotieva’s note with a decorative bracket.