# DOCUMENTS

**2338**

**TELEGRAM TO THE CRIMEAN REVKOM**

Sevastopol
February 26, 1921

Take decisive measures toward the genuine protection of artistic valuables, paintings, porcelain, bronze, marble, etc., located in the Yalta palaces and private buildings now being converted into sanatoriums of the People's Commissariat of Health, regarding which we have information about their removal. Until the arrival of a special commission from Moscow for the examination and protection of the aforementioned objects, all responsibility for their preservation is placed upon you.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

Lenin

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*

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