OF THE FOOD DEPARTMENT

OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET

August 23, 1919

Having received from you samples of fruits from the Soviet estates with your communication No. 4936 (of 22/8. 1919), I most humbly request that you cease doing so henceforth—do not send fruits and the like, but instead inform me of the data on how fruits and the like are distributed generally from Soviet estates, whether they are given to hospitals, sanatoriums, children, to what precisely, and in what quantities exactly.

How many Soviet estates do you have, what is the composition of their management, how many reports have you received, how many have been sent and for what period, etc.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript