V. I.

Lenin

289

To:   S. P. SEREDA AND A. D. TSYURUPA [3]

Sereda and Tsyurupa

Peasant Filipp Ilyich Bodrov (living in Forest School, Sokolniki, Moscow)—formerly a Petrograd worker, over 20
years in the Party—who has a farm in Venev Uyezd, Tula
Gubernia (about 20 members of the family living together,
undivided, a “ middle peasant ”), assures me that grain can
be carted to Moscow over a distance of up to 200 versts
(his village is 180 versts from Moscow). We have grain,
he says, we also have surpluses.

We have missed the winter period, he says, but after the sowing (which ends at about St. Nicholas’s
Day [1]

)

there will be about a month’s free time (before dung carting,
about a week before St. Peter’s
Day [2]

).

This, he says, should be utilised.

Information should be collected urgently, at once , and
if there is even a slight chance , this measure should be
carried out, for there will be no consignments from the cast.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, C.P.C.

7. IV. 1919

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Notes:
[1]

May 9.— Ed.

[2]

June 29.— Ed.

[3]
Lenin’s letter was written following a talk with F. I. Bodrov,
Chief of the Supply Section of the Sokolniki Forest School. There
is a note from Lenin to the Commandant of the Kremlin, written
on April 7, 1919: “Please admit the bearer, Comrade Filipp Ilyich
Bodrov, to the Kremlin and the Council of People’s Commissars.
V. Ulyanov (Lenin ), Chairman, C.P.C.” = ( Lenin Miscellany XXIV ,
p. 288).