MEMORANDUM TO M. I. FRUMKIN AND G. K. ORDJONIKIDZE¹
May 5, 1921
To Comrade Frumkin,
Rostov-on-Don,
and to Comrade Ordzhonikidze, in Tiflis or Baku,
or to their respective deputies.
I earnestly request that you assist in arranging for the treatment of
Olga Panteleymonovna
Lepeshinskaya,
who is suffering from tuberculosis. Likewise, please ensure that her parents—Panteleymon Nikolaevich and Olga—receive the best possible care.
The memorandum also bears the signatures of N. P. Bryukhanov, Deputy People’s Commissar for Agriculture, and E. M. Sklyansky, Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.

1894–1922

Borisovna Lepeshinskikh²—a group of veteran Bolsheviks who would themselves be too modest to seek assistance. Yet it is precisely these comrades whom we must support and help in every way possible.
Please let me know what steps have been taken to provide them with the aid they so desperately need.
With revolutionary greetings,  
Comrade V. I. Lenin
1 M. I. Frumkin had been a member of the Party since 1898. From 1918 until March 1922, he served as a member of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Food Supply, later assuming the role of Deputy People’s Commissar for Food Supply—and during this period, he was also appointed by the People’s Commissar for Agriculture as his representative in the North Caucasus. Beginning in April 1922, he became Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Trade of the RSFSR.
G. K. Ordzhonikidze was an outstanding state and Party leader. A member of the Party since 1903, in 1920–1921 he played a key role in organizing the struggle for Soviet power in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. From 1921 to 1926, he served as Chairman of the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee; thereafter, he held the position of First Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the Party, as well as other positions of great responsibility, and remained a member of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).
2 P. N. Lepeshinsky had been a member of the Party since 1898 and at that time served as a staff member of the Institute of History of the Party.
Lepeshinsky recounted the history of the memorandum now being published in his memoirs (see Memories of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Moscow, 1984, Volume 2, p. 65).