## DIRECTIVE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH

Source: PSS vol. 50

Directive

Notify the sailors of the Imperial Guard crew (obtaining their signatures certifying that this has been announced to them) that they are answerable for the lives of the arrested officers and that they, the sailors, will be deprived of provisions, arrested, and brought to trial.

Take urgent measures: (1) to dispatch a well-armed guard to the building; (2) to record the names of as many sailors of the Imperial Guard crew as possible.33

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

No earlier than January 8 (21), 1918

In the book: Vlad. Bonch-Bruevich.

"At the Combat Posts of the February and October Revolutions"

Written in January, First published in 1930

Moscow

Printed from the manuscript