October 22, 1918

Petrograd
Smolny, to Zinoviev

I fear that you have gone far too far in permitting Romanov to depart for Finland—No. 203.

Are the reports of his illness not exaggerated? I advise us to wait and not to send him straight to Finland.

Lenin

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First published in 1933 in the Lenin Collection, Volume XXI

Printed from the manuscript