Letter Regarding Kazan Telegram
To the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Comrade V. I. Lenin

You forwarded to me a telegram from Kazan with a complaint about the shortage of currency. I received similar telegrams from Vyatka and Vologda gubernias. In all these places, teachers, due to the absence of money, have not received their salaries for three months.

Thus it turns out that in gubernias that are absolutely starving—teachers are starving from lack of provisions, while in those that are productive, such as Kazan, Vologda, and Vyatka, in which teachers could actually feed themselves—they are starving from the absence of money.

I very much beg you, Vladimir Ilyich, to issue some directive, or bring this before the Council of People's Commissars, so that the currency notes allocated for the needs of the gubernias be distributed proportionally, that is: when there is a shortage of 10–20%, such shortage be distributed among all departments. Otherwise, what is actually happening is that absolutely everyone except employees of education receives their salary...