TELEGRAM TO M. A. MURAVYOV

First published in 1924 in the book by V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko, Zapiski o grazhdanskoi voine (Notes on the Civil War), Vol. I. Sent from Petrograd to Kiev. Printed from the original. · page 476

Commander-in-Chief Muravyov, Kiev

February 14, 1918

In the absence of orders from Antonov to the contrary, act as energetically as possible on the Rumanian front, by agreement with Rakovsky and his commission.

Lenin