248. TELEGRAM TO A. P. KUDRYAVTSEV

Written on January 13, 1919 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 187

Kudryavtsev, Head of Library Section, Commissariat for
Education
Petrograd

Guard Struve’s library, deposited at the Polytechnical Institute, from being looted. Hand over the most valuable   items to the Public Library, the remainder to the Polytechnical Institute. The portrait of Gerd by Yaroshenko should be handed to Nina Alexandrovna Struve through the Director of the Polytechnical Institute.

Telegraph fulfilment.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars