V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v37
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek); AI-translated.

LETTER TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY *
17/III 1921.

Comrade Dzerzhinsky

I urgently request that Pyotr Semyonovich Osadchy not be arrested without my knowledge; he must not be confused with Pavel Sergeyevich Osadchy — an SR.

The former has no connection whatsoever with the SRs, for which Comrade Krzhizhanovsky * absolutely vouches.

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

Printed from a typewritten copy signed by V. I. Lenin

1 On the published document, the following reply, transmitted by telephone from Petrograd, is written: "Osadchy was arrested on the initiative of the district troika during the Kronstadt events. He has now been released. His surname is not being confused with the other Osadchy." Below the text of the reply, there is an instruction from the secretary of the Chairman of the Cheka, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. L. Gerson: "Inform Comrade Lenin." See also this collection, pp. 288, 297.

G. M. Krzhizhanovsky — Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR.

* Letters of similar content were sent on the same day to the Petrograd Cheka and G. E. Zinoviev.