April 23, 1919

Elets
District Executive Committee

Check immediately the case of the seizure of rye at Elets station from Gorichev and his comrades. Were receipts issued, was the seizure lawful. Should part or all of it be returned. Telegraph [your findings].

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript