Comrade Zaksu

I charge you with verifying with complete accuracy and presenting to me by 10/X a summary of our gold reserves over your signature and the signature of a responsible worker of the People's Commissariat of Finance, who is answerable by his official position for information concerning the gold reserves.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Reserves of all types and all origins from the People's Commissariat of Finance, from the People's Commissariat of Trade, etc.*

Lenin

1922

Written in October, before the 10th

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the typescript supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin