Protection Certificate for the house and property of Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, residing in the town of Dmitrov, Moscow Province.¹

In addition to previous telegrams and notifications addressed to the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputies and the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry of the town of Dmitrov, it is hereby confirmed (also for the Committee of the Poor) that the house occupied by the old revolutionary Pyotr Alexeyevich KROPOTKIN on Sovetskaya Street (formerly Dvoryanskaya) is not subject to any requisition or consolidation, and that both his property and the peace of the old, meritorious revolutionary must enjoy the protection of the Soviet authorities.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars  
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the typewritten text signed by V. I. Lenin

¹ P. A. Kropotkin — one of the activists and theoreticians of anarchism. In 1872, while abroad, he joined Bakunin’s group. Upon returning to Russia, he participated, as an anarchist, in the Narodnik movement, for which he was arrested in 1874 and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1876, he escaped abroad, where he waged an active struggle against Marxism. During the world imperialist war — a chauvinist. Returning from emigration in 1917, he remained on bourgeois positions. In 1920, he addressed a letter to the European workers, in which he acknowledged the historical significance of the October Socialist Revolution and called on the workers to prevent military intervention against Soviet Russia.