[1918, May, not earlier than 4]

No. 313

1, we report that the general assembly of members of the Simbirsk Chuvash National Society with the participation of representatives of the district executive committees of the Chuvash people expressed itself against the candidacy of Yakovlev for the post of chairman of the Chuvash Theological Seminary. The candidacy of Yakovlev by the Commissariat of Education has not been eliminated. In the elections of the pedagogical council chairman, Afanasyev was elected. Yakovlev remained chairman of the women's courses of the seminary. The elections have been confirmed. Documents were sent by mail 5617. Chairman of the Simbirsk Provincial Council of People's Deputies M. Gimov.

I request that V. D. undertake the execution.

1 This concerns a telegram of V. I. Lenin from 20 April 1918 addressed to the chairman of the Simbirsk Soviet with an inquiry about the conditions and circumstances of the election of chairmen of the Chuvash male and female teachers' seminaries and the fate of inspector I. Ya. Yakovlev, who worked 50 years on the national development of the Chuvash and suffered persecution from Tsarism (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, p. 61).

2 V. D. Bonch-Bruevich.