V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To Comrade Molotov!

I am applying to the Secretariat of the C.C. (or if this is not within its competence but that of the Organising Bureau, then to the Organising Bureau) with a request on behalf of two comrades:

1) The daughter of Margarita Vasilyevna Fofanova, aged 15, is suffering from a severe form of bone tuberculosis. I request that she be sent (if necessary, 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 year, before October, during the most dangerous times, she hid me in her flat.

Since the October Revolution of 1917 she has been working tirelessly. Her daughter’s serious illness is completely exhausting her and taking her away from work. 208
(Fofanova’s address: 4th House of Soviets, Vozdvizhenka, 5, flat 31*.)

2) I request that Nina Kotovich-Sammer, aged 14, be placed in a model school of the People’s Commissariat for Education.

She should be assigned to the 1st class of the 2nd grade.

Address: Maroseika, 2/15, Centrosoyuz hostel.

I knew her father, the late Ivan Adamovich Sammer, well. An old revolutionary Bolshevik. A member of the C.C. even before the first (1905) revolution. He died in the Ukraine in 1920, having overworked himself. 209

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)