I would very much request that Comrade Kolesnikova - the wife of the comrade who was executed, a responsible worker,

TO V. M. MOLOTOV. 3 JANUARY 1922

be moved from the room she currently occupies in the 2nd House of Soviets (549), which is very small and, above all, very damp, to another, dry room (Kolesnikova has two children, one of whom is ill with malaria) 185.

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

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Written on 2 January 1922

First published 20-26 March

1960 in "Nedelya" (Sunday

Supplement to the newspaper "Izvestia")

Printed from the text,