Secret

т. Trotsky.

We are concealing from everyone (even from Getye) my whereabouts1. I am de in Gorki.

Have you or Natalia Ivanovna not told Dr. Goetje the opposite? If so, please tell me, so as not to offend the old man.

If not, don't say so. And if he comes to see you, tell him.

Hi!

Lenin.

Published - The Trotsky papers. 1917-1922. V. II, p. 682.

Fund 2, op. 1, d. 26138 - autograph.

1From March 6 to March 25, 1922, Lenin was in Korzinkin, Moscow district and province.

At the suggestion of V.M.Molotov, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on March 2 decided: "To extend the vacation of Comrade Lenin until the Party Congress" (RCCHIDNI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 277, l. 2).