January 17, 1922  
Comrade Molotov!  
I am addressing the Secretariat of the Central Committee (or, if this falls not within its competence but that of the Orgburo, then the Orgburo) with a request on behalf of two comrades.  
1)  
The daughter of Margarita Vasilyevna Fofanova, 15 years old, is ill with a severe form of bone tuberculosis. I request that she be sent (if necessary, together with her mother) to Riga, to our sanatorium. They have no means, of course.  
I have known M. V. Fofanova as an energetic and devoted Bolshevik since the summer of 1917. In the autumn of that same year, before October,  

1922  
during the most dangerous times, she hid me in her apartment.  
Since the October Revolution of 1917, she has worked tirelessly all the time. Her daughter’s grave illness is completely sapping her strength and taking her away from work.  
(Fofanova’s address: 4th House of the Soviets, Vozdvizhenka 5, apt. 31).  
2)  
I request that Nina Kotovich-Sammer, 14 years old, living at the Central Union of Consumers’ Societies dormitory, be placed in a model school of the People’s Commissariat of Education. She should be enrolled in the 1st class of the 2nd level. Address: Maroseyka, 2/15, Tsentrosoyuz dormitory.  
I knew her father, the late Ivan Adamovich Sammer, well.  
An old revolutionary Bolshevik. A member of the Central Committee even before the first (1905) revolution. He died in Ukraine in 1920, having overstrained himself at work.  
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)  
Printed from a typewritten copy.