**EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION**

25. XI. 1918

Samara

To the Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission
Copy to the Provincial Executive Committee

Communicate the grounds for the arrest of Pavel Aleksandrovich Preobrazhenskii. Postpone any decisions until the arrival of Sviderskii, whom I ask you to acquaint with the case, and also inform me whether it is not possible to release Preobrazhenskii on bail to the teachers' union.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript