## 1917 (DECEMBER) — 1918 YEARS

### TELEGRAM TO V. P. ANTONOV-SARATOVSKII

[12 July 1918]
Saratov
Antonov

I shall transmit your telegram to Trotsky.

I have already telegraphed once to Ivanov², who is traveling to Baku³, and I repeat once more that if he is needed in Saratov, then he must render special assistance to the Saratov comrades, particularly if the need is extreme, if our forces are surrounded.

Let Ivanov give me an answer.

Lenin

¹ V. P. Antonov-Saratovskii — chairman of the Saratov provincial executive committee.

² V. G. Ivanov (Caucasian) — in 1917–1918 a member of the Tiflis party committee, of the executive committee of the regional Soviet of the Caucasian Army, of the presidium of the eastern section of the Central Fleet, head of the military mobile detachment of the Moscow Military District. Until 1921 he served on the fronts of the Civil War.

³ Lenin telegraphed V. G. Ivanov on 7 July 1918 authorizing him to depart for Baku on the condition that the situation in Volsk was favorable. By this time, a counter-revolutionary mutiny of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries had been suppressed there.

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### MEMORANDUM TO G. V. CHICHERIN

[18 July 1918]

To Chicherin

The question posed by you (in writing today), in my view, is decided simply and unconditionally: yes (a political agreement à la Ioffe must be concluded, without surrendering Estonia, Livonia, and Georgia, but registering their occupation by Germany).

Have you sent an enciphered dispatch to Ioffe regarding Murmansk?¹

¹ The memorandum is connected with questions raised by new demands and certain complications in relations with the German government and the occupation of Murmansk by Entente forces. On 18 July 1918, V. I. Lenin heard a report from G. V. Chicherin on the first question.

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### TELEGRAM TO G. N. KAMINSKII

[22 July 1918]

Tula

Comrade Chairman of the Tula Provincial Executive Committee
Kaminskii

Copy to Panyushkin

Panyushkin must immediately explain to me his actions and attempts to free Agapov.

Panyushkin should depart for Moscow.

Agapov must remain under arrest. The provincial executive committee must urgently submit to me a copy of the report on his case.

Both Kaminskii and Panyushkin must notify me immediately of the execution of these orders.

If Panyushkin proves guilty of disorganization, he will be strictly punished.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

¹ Lenin's telegram was occasioned by a report from G. N. Kaminskii concerning the unlawful actions of the commissar of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee's detachment and the extraordinary military commissar of Tula province V. L. Panyushkin, which consisted in his attempting, using the forces of his detachment, to free the garrison commander S. K. Agapov, who had been arrested by the commissar of justice and the provincial military commissar for embezzlement of state funds (see D. M. Os'kin. Notes to Military Commissars, 1931, pp. 82–90).

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### DIRECTIVE TO N. P. GORBUNOV

[25 July 1918]

To Gorbunov

Do not forget to invite her tomorrow².

¹ The directive was written on a telegram from A. A. Ioffe to V. I. Lenin reporting the arrival in Moscow of Gerta Gordon (Wälcher), a veteran of the German workers' movement and since 1915 a member of the group "Internationale" (later the "Spartacus League"). Ioffe reported that Gordon was recommended by Clara Zetkin and requested that Lenin receive her, providing all possible assistance.