387. TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Written on July 15, 1919 · First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the original. · page 264

Stalin
R.M.C., Western Front

Letter number one received.

Gittis leaves tomorrow, if he has not already done so. Sergo and Sollogub have left. Sergei Medvedev is sick. Smilga has issued instructions for more people to be given. Regarding the Southern Front, we are taking measures.   Kamenev, Smilga, Gusev, Serebryakov are going there today.^[1]

Congratulations on the capture of Ekaterinburg.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Lenin marked off the text of the telegram, except the first and last sentences, and wrote in the margin: “In code.”—Ed.