To Tsyurupa.
[29 August 1918]*

Why are you keeping Schlichte r here?

Ought we not immediately dispatch him to one district (from the grain-producing ones, the best and closest to Moscow) with a commission to deliver the maximum urgently?

*This appears to be a brief note from Lenin to Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Tsyurupa (Soviet leader and food administrator) regarding A. G. Schlichte r's deployment for grain requisition purposes during the Russian Civil War period.