AND TELEGRAM TO POLONSKY

Send a telegram to the doctor who sent me yesterday a report on comrade Reske's illness. His name and address are with Lidia Aleksandrovna, from whom I took that paper yesterday.

Text of the telegram: I request that you convey to comrade Reske, if his state of health permits, the following instruction from me: write to me where his detachment is located and when it will finish its present work, several details about the personnel composition and about the professional skills and chief members of this detachment, and about who could replace comrade Reske in this detachment for a short time. More detailed information by letter, briefly by telegram 52.

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

Written July 19, 1921

Sent to Kislovodsk

First published in 1932 in Lenin Collection XX

Printed from the typescript