V. I.

Lenin

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REFERENCE TO N. A. YEMELYANOV

19.XI.1921

To Comrades Stomonyakov, Lutovinov, Krasin, Vorovsky, Kerzhentsev, Lomonosov,
Litvinov, and others

I strongly recommend the bearer, Comrade Nikolai
Alexandrovich Yemelyanov. I have known him personally since July 1917, as one of the best among the old Party
guard in Petrograd. I request that you show him full trust
and give him every assistance. I believe that it is highly important to bring him into closer touch with the
affairs of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade,
because, first, we are short of experienced Party men among the P.C.F.T. personnel abroad. Second, I have
a number of documents saying that workers abroad often resent the fact that the P.C.F.T. of the R.S.F.S.R. has
not sought ways of drawing closer to them. [1]

In this context, Yemelyanov’s role should also be very big.

It is my earnest request that those of you who meet
Comrade Yemelyanov should write to me.

With communist greetings,

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )