Stations of the Moscow-Kursk Railway. Stanovoy Kolodsz. Gorbachevo. Ponyry.

To the Commander of the Requisition Detachment of the Commissariat of Food Supply.

I order you to depart immediately for Moscow for explanations concerning the matter of wounds inflicted upon Burmistrov and others by member of your detachment Kuzmichev. [620]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

¹ It should be assumed that these notes were made by Lenin on the same day or the day following the writing of the telegram mentioned in the text dated 23 July (see the following document).

² Burmistrov-Utkin — a railway depot worker of the Sortirovka station on the Kazan Railway, commander of the Red Guard of the railway district. Was transferred with his detachment from the south to the Czechoslovak Front, where he perished.