DIRECTIVE ON SENDING GUARDS
TO THE TAURIDE PALACE
December 9 (22), 1917
To the Acting Commander of the Petrograd District
Kazantsev
Guards are to be sent to the Tauride Palace on the instructions of Chief of Security Blagonnravov¹ or Commandant Prigorovskii².

President of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulianov (Lenin)

¹ G. I. Blagonnravov — extraordinary military commissar for the protection of Petrograd, commissar of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
² M. V. Prigorovskii — commandant of the Tauride Palace.

REPLY VIA DIRECT LINE TO N. V. KRYENKO

December 11 (24), 1917
We agree with your policy. We agree on the election of the Commander-in-Chief. When you depart, issue an order to the most energetic people so that in Kharkov there will be as soon as possible a large force of completely reliable troops, and so that the movement will proceed without hesitation before any obstacles or any other considerations.

Lenin

We are extremely concerned about the sluggish movement of troops from the front to Kharkov. Take all measures, up to and including the most revolutionary ones, for the most energetic movement of troops and, moreover, in large quantities to Kharkov.

Lenin

Printed from the telegraph tape text

¹ In a conversation over the direct line, Supreme Commander-in-Chief N. V. Kryenko reported on the situation at the front, on the struggle against the Central Rada and the entry of our troops into Kharkov, on measures for strengthening the army, on the all-army congress being held at that time at Headquarters, which raised the question of the election of the Commander-in-Chief. Kryenko also reported on the necessity of his trip to Petrograd to report to the Council of People's Commissars.

LETTER TO YA. A. BERZIN

[December 1917, before December 24 (January 6, 1918)]
Dear Pavel Vasilyevich!

I received your letter. I reply — forgive the haste.

You must get treatment and get treatment.

I do not advise you to go for now.

For the Constituent Assembly we will summon [you] — give me the nearest telephone number and repeat your letter. Rest for now.

Your Lenin

¹ Ya. A. Berzin (pseudonym — Pavel Vasilyevich), who was at that time in Finland, in the sanatorium "Halila," wrote to V. I. Lenin about his state of health, and also reported that in connection with his election as a member of the Constituent Assembly he would have to depart for Petrograd.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

[January 3 (16), 1918]

Vladimir Ilyich, I request that you tell me precisely right now on what date you spoke at the Mikhailovsky Riding School and at what hour they shot at you¹.

Vl. Bonch-Bruevich

I don't remember. Check the newspapers.