May 5, 1919

To the Moscow Soviet Department

Comrade Ilyich or Comrade Zagorsky or to the Secretariat of the MK

I recommend the bearer, Comrade Philipp Ilyich Bodrov, a member of the party since 1894; Nadezhda Konstantinovna has known him from those times in Petersburg. An experienced party worker who wishes to work in the city of Moscow; due to personal circumstances he has not been able to come closer until now.

I earnestly request that you give him work immediately. Instead of party work, it would probably be more necessary now to place him in Ero*.

Greetings! Lenin

I request that you allow the bearer, Comrade F. I. Bodrov, to enter the Moscow Soviet Department.

May 5. Lenin

* Unified Clearance Organ of the Moscow Railway Hub under the Moscow Soviet. — Ed.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIV

Printed from the manuscript