V. I. Lenin

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

7/IV.

Comrade Sergo! After speaking with Comrade Belenky on the subject of our conversation yesterday, please drop me a couple of lines so that I know we have fully agreed and that there will be no "misunderstandings".

My nerves are still painful, and the headaches are not going away. To try a serious course of treatment, rest must be made a rest.

Given how busy you are, you will probably not be able to carry out what we discussed yesterday yourself, and it would certainly not be rational for you to take it on. Find someone who is efficient and attentive to details and assign it to him (then, incidentally, it will be more pleasant for me to scold him rather than you).

Around the 7th of May I shall expect you to send me both a detailed map and information about a suitable place (or suitable places)—altitude above sea level, isolation, etc., etc.; also descriptions of these places and of the districts or provinces where they are located.

I must frankly confess that I have an extremely great distrust of the "outlying areas"; from this distrust (and from my sick nerves) I fully expect that some "anecdote" will result instead of any treatment. Even here near Moscow I have seen how, after a heap of promises, "anecdotes" have turned up, leaving only one thing to do: leave the designated place and return to Moscow, and wait there for the "elimination of the anecdotes". But from near Tiflis or near Novorossiisk you cannot "return to Moscow". I confess I am afraid of a long journey: it might turn out to be fatigue, nonsense, and bustle and squabbling instead of a cure for my nerves. Find someone attentive to details, and let him do it more carefully*.

Yours, Lenin

P.S. Don't forget to check the cipher with the CC and with Stalin more thoroughly. Also the question of a secretary for deciphering and for small "written" assignments.