[12 June 1918]

We are sending you (with a mandate from the Commissariat of Internal Affairs and with my signature besides) to the provinces:

Tula
Orel
Voronezh and others to restore order.

Tomorrow evening you must leave.

First you must speak (tomorrow morning) with Sverdlov (about the Tula Soviet of Deputies and about Panyushkin)², with me (about the same thing, about food and military tasks), with Trotsky, with Tsyurupa³, with Nevsky.