NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY 1
[1920, no later than July 2]
To Krestinsky:
The Organizational Bureau must issue a decision:
All institutions must step up their efforts.

We must demand a meeting
with Avanesov
+
and Sklyansky.
1 This document was drafted as a report from the Military Commissar of the Sochinsky District to the Chairman of the Council of Defense, V. I. Lenin
(copy to: F. E. Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Cheka) concerning the district’s situation and the need to accord greater attention to this crucial strategic outpost. The note reported that intelligence had been received indicating a conspiracy being hatched and directed by British agents. The local population was under the sway of Right Socialist-Revolutionaries. With only meager forces available to guard strategically vital gorges, passes, and trails, the military district found itself in an extremely precarious position. The note proposed that all authority—military, political, and civil—be temporarily concentrated in a single hand; otherwise, there loomed the grave danger of rapid loss of the district, where the British hoped to establish a new base for diverting the Republic’s military resources.
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NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY AND G. V. CHICHERIN 1
To Krestinsky and Chicherin: I do not know the text of the treaty. If it cannot be postponed, then you must send me the treaty’s text and Chicherin’s response. But I would still advise delaying it further.*
10/VII [1920] Lenin

The note was written beneath the text of a telegram from Yu. Marhlevsky, requesting a decision on the signing of a treaty with Lithuania. Marhlevsky regarded the treaty as unacceptable—especially since it had not even been considered by the Central Committee of the RCP(b).
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INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY 1
Didn’t the Council of People’s Commissars already issue a resolution on this matter? 2 Please locate it and submit it for review to Comrade Bryukhanov.
20/VI1 [1920] Lenin
1 The instruction was penned on a letter from P. V. Taneev—a member of the Board of the Main Railway Administration, son of the Russian public figure and scholar V. I. Taneev—*
On the envelope of the note, V. I. Lenin wrote: “To Krestinsky and Chicherin (from Lenin).”

1920

Taneev (1840–1921). In his letter to Lenin, P. V. Taneev described the dire circumstances facing V. I. Taneev and requested that the authorities instruct the local land administration not to seize his father’s home—and to preserve intact the centuries-old park surrounding the house, which represented a national treasure—so that, come winter, they might provide his father with everything he needed. He also asked for permission to order medicines for his father from the Kremlin pharmacy.

See V. I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works, Volume 50, p. 383.