Date: 1919-01-03
Source: ru:PSS/v50

# TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

Source: CW vol 50

Urgent

To Kursk and to the location of
The People's Commissar for Military Affairs Trotsky

From the operational summary No. 4873 of the Chief of Staff of the Caucasian Front, it is evident that the White Cossacks have occupied Raygorod on the banks of the Volga, south of Saratov, threatening, first, our military cargoes going from Vladimirovka to Tsaritsyn, and second, the integrity of the Astrakhan-Saratov line. Please take measures. From the same operational

TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE CASPIAN-CAUCASIAN FRONT

summary, it is evident that a British fleet, consisting of four ships, bombarded Staroterichnaya, south of Astrakhan, set two of our barges on fire, and left unscathed into the sea, seizing our hospital ship "Alesker" with its medical personnel. Where is our fleet and what is it doing?

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

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Written on January 2 or 3, 1919

First published on January 21, 1937 in the newspaper "Pravda" No. 21

Printed from the text written by hand by I. V. Stalin and signed by V. I. Lenin