**1917 (DECEMBER)—1918
YEARS**

seminaries and on the fate of Inspector I. Y. Yakovlev, who worked 50 years
on the national advancement of the Chuvash and suffered persecution from tsarism
(see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, p. 61).
2 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich.

## TELEGRAM TO G. E. ZINOVIEV
[May 11, 1918]

Petrograd, To Zinoviev

We are doing everything possible.
Just now I have received a telegram from Ufa:

"Tomorrow we shall begin urgent loading. By scheduled train we shall dispatch twenty thousand poods of flour and rye to Moscow and the Moscow province, the same quantity to Petrograd and the Petrograd province. Altogether forty thousand.

Chairman Eltsin."

Lenin

Printed from typewritten copy

1 The matter concerns the organization of food aid for Moscow and Petrograd with their provinces.
G. E. Zinoviev was at this time chairman of the Petrograd Soviet.

## NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

May 14, 1918

Comrade Chicherin!

I fully recommend to you the bearer of this note, comrade Kinkel.

Treat him with complete confidence and hear him out in detail.

Greetings! Lenin

1 The note was written by V. I. Lenin after a conversation with Kinkel concerning the possibility of utilizing his services in diplomatic or propaganda work at Soviet missions in Germany, Hungary, or Bulgaria.
2 Kinkel—a Swiss social-democrat. V. I. Lenin frequently turned to his assistance as a translator from German, particularly during the period of preparation for the conference of left social-democrats in Berne in September 1915.

*Leninist Collection XXXVII*

## TELEGRAM TO YEKATERINBURG
TO THE REGIONAL SOVIET OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
[May 21, 1918]

I earnestly request that you help in every possible 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 Henry Petersen. Inform me how and in what ways you have aided them.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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1 Hildur Haikonen—a veteran of the Finnish Communist Party, sister-in-law of Latukki, in whose family V. I. Lenin lived in the autumn of 1917 during the period of his final underground work. Lenin's telegram was a reply to Haikonen's request for help for her and her relatives to leave the country, and on May 25, 1918, a telegram of thanks from her was received by V. I. Lenin.

## EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. A. FOTIEVA

[May 22, 1918]

Will the protocols of the Small Council be approved today?

No.

*In yesterday's there is an item about the appropriation to the Samara SNKh of 1 million rubles. The Samara man is going around and waiting for a decision. Perhaps this item should be considered?

Pravdin or Petrovskii should take the floor to order things.

1 The correspondence of V. I. Lenin with the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars L. A. Fotieva was conducted at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on May 22, 1918. The decision of the Small Council concerning the appropriation to the Samara Council of People's Commissars of 1,000,000 rubles for the support of nationalized enterprises took place on May 21, and was approved at the session of the Council of People's Commissars on May 24, 1918.
2 A. G. Pravdin—deputy commissar of internal affairs.
3 G. I. Petrovskii served as commissar of internal affairs of the RSFSR in 1917–1919.
* The text of L. A. Fotieva's note from the words: "In yesterday's there..." V. I. Lenin enclosed in a curved bracket.