Vladimir Dmitriyevich!

Here is a plan of those rooms that Malkov wants to move the Council of People's Commissars to.179

I ask you and Lydia Aleksandrovna to inspect and consider whether it is worth doing?

(1) The heating will be devilishly expensive.

(2) Will it be convenient there with the reception room?

(3) Is it not possible to remain here? i.e., will it not be excessively cold? Call in the stove-maker and clarify the matter.

Regards! Lenin

Written September 14, 1918

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript