TELEGRAM TO THE CHUDOVO GOVERNORATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
To the Governorate Executive Committee
[February 5, 1919]
Is it true that you have arrested the auditors from the Council of Defense
and the commissioner Tatarzhinsky? Please explain your actions by telegraph. 1.
1 Regarding the arrest of Tatarzhinsky, the commissioner of the People’s Commissariat for Trade responsible for conducting an extraordinary food inspection and chairman of the Novgorod Provincial Revolutionary Committee for Internal Affairs, the assistant to the head of local oversight reported the matter. Above the text of the telegram to the Chudovo Governorate Executive Committee, Lenin wrote an instruction to the secretary: “Chudov, Chudovo? Investigate.”