V. I.

Lenin

596

To:   A. D. TSYURUPA

Comrade Tsyurupa:

Having looked into the whole situation and the doctor’s
written orders, which you had shown me, [1] etc., I most
insistently request you to take the following into consideration.

I shall be unable to return before three or, perhaps, four
weeks. This is the most difficult period, and C.C. members
cannot set aside other business so as to take a most direct
part in C.P.C. and C.L.D. work. The doctor gave you permission to work for 8 hours. I absolutely insist that over the next four weeks you confine yourself to 4 hours
of work a day, and besides take a complete rest on
Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. The rest of the time should be spent on a sanatorium regimen, for which
purpose I expect to find a room in Sokolniki for you and your
wife, so that you may have your usual sick-nurse, good,
food, etc. I am quite sure that otherwise you will not be
able to stand the four weeks of work, and that is something
we need very badly because of the political situation. Of
these four hours, you must spend 2 hours a day in attending the C.P.C. and C.L.D. meetings, which we shall hold
twice a week, the other two hours being devoted exclusively
to the signing of minutes and the necessary minimum of conversation in person and by phone. If things are arranged
this way, our apparatus will not be weakened in any way within these four weeks. You will be getting intensive
help on the technical side from Gorbunov and Smolyaninov,
and on the political side, from Kamenev and Stalin, and
I have already made arrangements with all of them. Once
again I ask you to accept this plan and to carry it out
punctiliously, because it is absolutely Utopian to hope to
protect your flat against an influx of friends from the
Commissariat for Food, etc.

Please send your reply through Fotieva as soon as possible. [2]

21/I.22.

Lenin