V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW35; ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

May 23, 1918

To the Manager of Affairs of the Council of People’s Commissars,
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich

In view of your failure to comply with my insistent demand that you indicate to me the grounds
for raising my salary from 500 to 800 rubles a month as from March 1, 1918, and in view of the
obvious illegality of this increase,
effected by you on your own authority in agreement with the Secretary of the Council, Nikolai
Petrovich Gorbunov, in direct violation of the decree of the Council of People’s Commissars
of November 23, 1917, I reprimand you severely.95

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)