61. To Y. M. SVERDLOV AND S. P. SEREDA

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 75

8. IV. 1918

Comrade Sverdlov
and Comrade Sereda

The bearer, Comrade Kharlov, who has been working for eleven months in the peasant Soviets of Pskov Gubernia,   is an agronomist by speciality with five years’ practical experience. A member of the Bolshevik Party since 1905 (he has been on the books in Petrograd, Vasilyevsky Island, since March 1917). Please have a talk with him about work in the Commissariat for Agriculture and his possible participation in it.

Lenin