V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR FOOD

22. VI. 1920

Please see that Citizen Tyrkov , one of the last of the
Mohicans of the heroic group of Narodovoltsi, involved in the March trial for the assassination of Alexander II—
Citizen Tyrkov is now in extreme old age— is provided with two or three dessiatines of land from his
former estate and two cows for his family.

Orders for this to be given urgently by the People’s
Commissar for Agriculture, Comrade Sereda, and by the People’s Commissar for Food, Comrade
Tsyurupa (or his deputy), by agreement, by telegraph , with
the local gubernia executive committee. [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, C.P.C.

I ask the People’s Commissars to sign whether they agree
or not.

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Notes:
[1]
At the top of the document Lenin wrote: “Remind me there
should be a report on fulfilment from the Commissariat for Agriculture .” [2] — Ed .

[2]
On Lenin’s letter there is a note by the People’s Commissar for
Agriculture: “A corresponding directive has already been sent
by me to the Gubernia Land Department. S. Sereda .”