To the Rodniki Soviet of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk District
To the Rodniki Executive Committee
Copy to the Extraordinary Commission

Immediately unseal the storage room and living quarters of Pyotr Ilyich Surkov in the village of Kutilov. Report the names of those who carried out the sealing and their explanation of their actions—why they are requisitioning books. Telegraph confirmation of execution.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript