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PROTECTION CERTIFICATE FOR V. I. TANEYEV [1]

April 26, 1919

Citizen Vladimir Ivanovich Taneyev

Protection Certificate

On the basis of a decision of the Council of People’s
Commissars dated 25/III. 1919 this Protection Certificate
is issued to Citizen Vladimir Ivanovich Taneyev , 78 years of age, who for many years carried on scientific work and,
as testified by Karl Marx, showed himself to be a “devoted
friend of the people’s emancipation”. [2]

Citizen Vladimir Ivanovich Taneyev is given the right to visit the library of the Council of People’s Commissars,
and all other state libraries are directed to give him every
assistance in his scientific work and researches. All Soviet
authorities are instructed to afford Citizen Vladimir
Ivanovich Taneyev assistance in the matter of his own security
and that of his family, home and property. In the event
of his travelling through the Russian Socialist Soviet
Republic all railway and steamship authorities are instructed
to afford Citizen Vladimir Ivanovich Taneyev and his family every possible assistance in obtaining train tickets
and berths.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
[1]
On May 25, 1919, after examining the question of material
assistance for V. I. Taneyev, a Russian revolutionary democrat, public
figure and scholar, the Council of People’s Commissars decided
to assign him a monthly social security pension of 2,000 rubles,
and authorised Lenin to sign a Protection Certificate.