TELEGRAM TO THE YAROSLAVL GOVERNORATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Yaroslavl
To the Governorate Executive Committee
Copy to the Cheka
February 22, 1919
Soviet official Danilov complains that the Cheka has seized three poods of flour and other provisions—goods he had painstakingly earned over a year and a half through his labor, intended for his family of four. Conduct a thorough investigation into this matter.
Please telegraph me the outcome. [302]
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin.
TELEGRAMS TO THE TSARITSYN GOVERNORATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE CHEKA.
24th of March*
Tsaritsyn
To the Governorate Executive Committee
Copy to the Cheka
[March 6, 1919]
A certain Valentina Pershikova, aged 17, has been arrested, allegedly for drawing on my portrait *. Please inform me what the matter is.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin.
1. V. Pershikova, an employee of the Tsaritsyn Housing Department, was
arrested for defacing a portrait of Lenin that she had torn from a certain
brochure. The head of one of the Tsaritsyn police precincts, Usachev, had petitioned (in a telegram to Lenin) for her release.
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Tsaritsyn
To the Chairman of the Governorate Extraordinary Commission, Myshkin
March 8, 1919
It is unlawful to arrest someone for creating a portrait. Release
Valentina Pershikova immediately; if she proves to be a counterrevolutionary,
then keep a close watch on her. [335]
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, Lenin.
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INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY.
[March 8, 1919]
Remind me when the reply from the Extraordinary Commission arrives.
(And in due course, hand over all the materials to the feuilletonists.) *.
1. Lenin is referring to the telegraphic petitions for the release of
V. Pershikova, which he had received from Usachev, a Tsaritsyn police officer (March 6, 1919), and from Red Army soldier Minin on March 8, 1919.