[April 5, 1919]

April 5, 1919
Comrade Svidersky!
Please receive the delegates (or instruct Frumkin to do so) and try to satisfy their request *, about which we have already agreed.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

* The request concerns the petition of the peasants of Skopin district, outlined in the mandate of the district consultative congress, in which they raised questions about lifting the tax on middle peasants, about increasing the grain norm,