V. I.

Lenin

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To:   P. A. ZALUTSKY AND A. A. SOLTS

Comrade Zalutsky and Comrade Salts

I have had a letter from Comrade Kasparova-Popova (address: 3 House of Soviets, Flat 63, telephone 58–97).
She writes that she is absolutely desperate about her expulsion from the Party, and asks me to intercede with the
Central Commission for Purging the Party and request them to make a thorough verification of her case, referring
to her brother Slava Kasparov and her husband Popov, who had been sent to the Far East, by Comrade Sverdlov and was killed there. She writes that, together with her
brother, she began to lake an interest in the Party at the
age of 14, was a member of school study circles, and joined
the Party at the age of 17, doing purely technical work.

I do not know this Kasparova personally, or have forgotten her, but I knew her brother very well abroad, where
he was an émigré after the first revolution of 1905, was a
member of the Bolshevik organisation, and enjoyed the well-deserved respect of all Bolsheviks with whom I had
occasion to meet and who had seen Kasparov work. This
Kasparov died in Switzerland before the 1917 revolution
(his health being overtaxed by the difficult conditions of
émigré life).

I shall try to collect information about anyone who may
have known Kasparov’s sister better.

For my part, I request the Central Commission for
Purging the Party to verify the case of Comrade Kasparova’s
expulsion from the
Party. [1]

Lenin

20.00 hours, December 20, 1921.

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Notes:
[1]
Yevgenia Popova (Kasparova) was reinstated in the Party.

On the document there is the following inscription by C.P.C.
secretary Natalya Lepeshinskaya: “Vladimir Ilyich earnestly
asks Comrades Stalin, Safarov, Zinoviev and Kornblyum urgently to give information about Comrade Kasparova and also to
find out who else of the comrades knows her well and what they
could say about her.”