V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v18
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TELEGRAM TO N. I. MURALOV

[Not later than August 19, 1918]¹

Phone message to Muralov²

Sereda urgently demands 200 poods of petrol for delivering grain
in the Yelets Uyezd. Do not forget that the grain question is the main and fundamental
one. Everything must be done. Reply at once when exactly the 200 poods of petrol were sent to
Sereda (to the People’s Commissar of Agriculture Sereda. Yelets). 5 S
Lenin.

¹ The date is established from Lenin’s telegram to Sereda stating that “today”, i.e., August 19, a tank of petrol is being sent to him (see the following document).
² N. I. Muralov — in 1918, Chief of the Moscow Military District.