November 11, 1920
Comrades M. N. Pokrovsky, Vladimirsky, and Avanesov, I request that you form a commission under the chairmanship of M. N. Pokrovsky to examine the statement of the Council of Religious Communities regarding the violation of the decree of January 4, 1919. This statement will be sent to you by Comrade Kursky.

I am enclosing a letter from Chertkov to me.

I would very much request that you expedite the examination.¹

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

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript