V. I.

Lenin

496

To:   N. P. GORBUNOV

12.XI.1921

Comrade Gorbunov:

Please read the enclosure and send on to Comrade Alsky for a study by him and members of the People’s
Commissariat for Finance Collegium, and then on to Comrade
Kamenev, chairman of a commission which will probably deal with the matter as
well. [1]

I first met Chebotaryov in the 1880s, in the case of my
elder brother, Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, who was hanged
in 1887. Chebotaryov is undoubtedly an honest man. In the
epoch of the first revolution and after he was politically a
Cadet, but not an active one. I believe that his honesty
can and must be relied upon. He now seems to be politically close to Smena Vekh . [2]

Lenin