TO THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES

[21 May 1918]

I urgently request that you help in every way and in all respects my good comrades, who have rendered me great services: citizen Hildur Haikonen. Address — Hotel Metropol, Yekaterinburg, her brother Alexander Haikonen, her comrades Paul Palmfeldt, Anne Ovan and Heinrich Petersen. Inform me how and in what way you have helped them.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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1 Hildur Haikonen — veteran of the Finnish Communist Party, sister of the wife of Latukka, in whose family V. I. Lenin lived in the autumn of 1917 during the last period of underground work. Lenin's telegram was a reply to Haikonen's request for help for her and her relatives to leave abroad, and on 25 May 1918 Lenin received from her a telegram expressing gratitude for the help.