Secret

т. Sokolnikov

Trotsky informs me as if, according to your statement, the budget of our party for 9 months is 40 million in gold. I resolutely refuse to believe this; is there no mistake? I ask you to send me on the same paper in a few lines on the name of Fotieva a secret confirmation or clarification1.

If possible, add 2-3 figures about the budget of our Party for the last 3 years.

4/II 22.

Lenin.

Received by telephone

L. Fotieva.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 22737 - autograph of L. A. Fotieva.

February 14, 1922, the People's Commissar of Finance G.Ya.Sokolnikov sent to the Secretariat of the SNK RSFSR for forwarding to V.I.Lenin the expenditure estimate of the RCP(b) for January-September 1922, according to which 19,987,475 rubles were allocated to the Party, Komsomol and the reserve fund. (RCCHIDNI, f. 2, op. 1, d. 22738). Lenin, who was at the state farm near the village of Kostino, was brought the estimate the same day by M.I.Ulyanova. After familiarizing himself with the estimate, Lenin sent a note to Sokolnikov with a proposal to "consider the incident exhausted" (see doc. 354) and marked on the estimate: "to the archive".