TELEGRAM TO G. N. KAMENSKY

[July 22, 1918]
Tula
To the Chairman of the Tula Provincial Executive Committee
Kamensky
Copy to Panyushkin
Panyushkin must immediately explain his actions and attempts
to free Agapov.
Let Panyushkin go to Moscow.
Agapov must remain under arrest. The Provincial Executive Committee must urgently
submit to me a copy of the report on his case.
Kamensky and Panyushkin must immediately inform me about the execution.
If Panyushkin is found guilty of disorganization, he will be severely punished.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin
1 V. I. Lenin's telegram was prompted by a message from G. N. Kamensky
about the illegal actions of V. L. Panyushkin, the commissar of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee detachment and the extraordinary military
commissar of the Tula province, which consisted in the fact that he, using the forces of his detachment, tried to free the chief
of the garrison, S. K. Agapov, arrested by the commissar of justice and the provincial military commissar for embezzlement of public funds (see D. M. Oskin. Notes to Military
Commissars., 1931, pp. 82-90).

ORDER TO N. P. GORBUNOV

[July 25, 1918]
Gorbunov
Don't forget to invite her tomorrow

2.
1 The order is written on A. A. Ioffe's telegram to V. I. Lenin
reporting the arrival in Moscow of Hertha Gordon (Walcher), a veteran
of the German labor movement, since 1915 a member of the "International"
group (later the "Spartacus League"). Ioffe reported that Gordon was recommended
by Clara Zetkin and asks Lenin to receive her, providing all possible
assistance.

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2 On July 26, 1918, V. I. Lenin received Gordon and on the same day
wrote a letter to K. Zetkin in response to the letter from Clara brought by Gordon
Zetkin to Lenin dated June 27, 1918 (see V. I. Lenin. Poln. sobr. soch.,
volume 50, pp. 127-128).

NOTE
TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE KREMLIN
P. D.
MALKOV
July 25, 1918
Comrade Malkov!
Give the opportunity to Comrade
Gorbunov to inspect the Grand
Nikolaevsky
Palace and other
Kremlin premises
1.
Lenin
1 The inspection of the Kremlin premises was connected with the placement of government
institutions after the move from Petrograd. V. I. Lenin
addressed the commandant of the Kremlin on this matter more than once in the first months of 1918 after March 12.

TELEGRAM TO V. P. NOGIN

[August 1, 1918]
Saratov
Nogin

More than two workers are being sent today. Make every effort to get things going. I will take care of the literature.
Lenin
1 V. I. Lenin's telegram is a response to V. P. No gin's telegram of August 1, 1918 from Saratov reporting on the difficult situation
in the city and province in connection with the Czechoslovak revolt, about kulak
uprisings, about poor organizational and propaganda work among
the population, especially the peasantry, about the need to send one or two workers for party work from the Center
and people who know about newspapers, as well as to send "Pravda," "Izvestia," "Bednota," and newspapers in Tatar
and other local languages.
2 V. P. Nogin is Deputy People's Commissar of Labor, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council.

NOTES TO A. D.
TSYURUPA

[August 3, 1918]
Tsyurupa
They say that
1) Sverdlov's brother
2 undertakes to deliver tens of thousands of poods of potatoes to Moscow in 7 days
(at a price lower than the usual Moscow price) and that the formalism
of the Commissariat of Food interferes with this.
2) that representatives of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies ask, to combat hunger,
for permission to bring bread, with strict observance of all
the rules and plans of the Commissariat of Food and that formalism and so on.
1 This correspondence with A. D. Tsyurupa was conducted during the meeting of the Council of People's
Commissars on August 3, 1918 in connection with the discussion of draft decrees
developed by the People's Commissariat of Food in accordance with V. I. Lenin's theses on attracting
workers' organizations to grain procurement.
In his replies to Lenin, Tsyurupa wrote that the People's Commissariat of Food does not regulate
the procurement of potatoes and that formalism cannot take
place here, and on the issue of transportation and procurement of bread, he proposes to give
independence to the Soviets of Workers' Deputies of starving provinces, with which all food workers agree.
2 V. M. Sverdlov in 1918 was the commissar of the operational management
of the People's Commissariat of Railways,

TELEGRAM TO THE
TULA EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION

August 1, 1918
Tula
To the Extraordinary Commission
Copy to the People's Commissariat of Labor to Dyuryainenu *
for the workers
Immediately send a detailed report on the reasons for the arrest
of Kislyakov by you. If it is secret, then send it with a special messenger.
You were obliged to send yourself, without waiting for my request,

* Typo; it refers to P. P. Pyurnyannen.