ZAP ISKA A. M. LEZHAVA
1. XI [1920]
Dear Lezhava! Please read this and, in just two words, share your opinion—would you be so kind? *
Your Lenin
1 Written on a letter from A. M. Gorky to V. I. Lenin, requesting that he instruct A. M. Lezhava, Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade, to grant the expert commission, by way of exception, the authority to purchase artistic and antique items from citizens of the Soviet Republic, allocating a specific sum of money to the commission’s disposal for this purpose, with the aim of preserving these objects within the country.