V. I.

Lenin

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To:   THE PRESIDIUM OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET

I enclose an extract from the booklet Cooking Food Without Fire (p. 43, No. 1 of “The Housewife’s Little
Library”, published by the Supreme Economic Council, Moscow, 1918) and ask you to let me know the results of
the thermos vessel competition announced by the Food
Department of the Moscow
Soviet. [1]

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

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Notes:
1  vedro —21 pints.— Ed.

[1]
The extract mentioned by Lenin stated: “...the Food
Department of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies
has announced a competition for thermos vessels of large and
small dimensions. Three prizes will be awarded: for apparatus
of half a = vedro —10,000 rubles, 5,000 rubles and 3,000 rubles;
for blueprints of apparatus of live vedros —5,000 rubles and 3,000
rubles. Apparatus and blueprints must be presented by October