13. V. 1919

Novgorod
To the Provincial Food Commissar Litorin
Copies to the Provincial Executive Committee and Provincial Cheka

Why have you not carried out Tsiurupa's directive from 26. IV to submit immediately an explanation regarding the requisition of premises and inventory of the artel union? I demand immediate submission of explanations from all three addressees and a telegraphic reply.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

* The words "Simbirsk and at the location" in the address and the text of the telegram from the words "In general the mutual relations" are written in the hand of V. I. Lenin. Ed.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript