V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

23 May 1918

To the Manager of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich

In view of your failure to comply with my insistent demand that you indicate to me the grounds for increasing my salary from 1 March 1918 from 500 to 800 rubles per month, and in view of the blatant illegality of this increase, effected by you on your own authority in collusion with the Secretary of the Council, Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov, in direct violation of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of 23 November 1917, I hereby reprimand you severely.

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

First published in 1933.