294. TELEGRAM TO THE KAZAN GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original. · page 210

9. IV. 1919

Gubernia Executive Committee
Kazan
Copy to the Military Revolutionary Committee

Citizens Chernyshov, Sorokin, Semyonov and Herman complain from Yadrin that they have been kept in prison for 5 months without being interrogated. Investigate complaint without delay and give me an explanation at once.

Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars