**Directive**

Notify the sailors of the Guards Crew (by taking from them a signed declaration that this has been announced to them) that they are answerable for the lives of the arrested officers and that they, the sailors, will be deprived of supplies, arrested, and brought to trial.

Take emergency measures: (1) to dispatch a well-armed guard to the building; (2) to record the names of as large a number of sailors of the Guards Crew as possible.33

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin no earlier than January 8 (21), 1918 in the book: Vlad. Bonch-Bruevich.

"At the Combat Posts of the February and October Revolutions,"

Written in January, First published in 1930

Moscow

Printed from the manuscript