Comrade Semashko!

I am informed that Avanesov is overexerting himself, being in quite poor health: supposedly there is not even one light [symptom] (?) and so forth.

I ask you to appoint entirely reliable professors and entrust them with giving a written report (both diagnosis and treatment).

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Written May 24, 1921

First published in 1933 in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the manuscript