217. TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 170

12. XII. 1918

Trotsky
Voronezh
or present whereabouts

Astrakhan wires re necessity of stepping up work by the flotilla^[1] in view of the uprising of the Bolsheviks in Georgia and the highly dangerous menace of a British advance. Would you not find it useful if Raskolnikov, who for some reason is hanging around in Moscow, were sent to Astrakhan?

Lenin

Notes

[1] The Astrakhan-Caspian naval flotilla.—Ed.