470. To YEVGENIA POPOVA

First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 310

20. XI. 1919

Comrade Popova
Manager of the 1st House of Soviets

Please give a room (one, at least, to begin with, later two—for a translator) 

to Comrade Keeley, an American engineer, who has come to help the Soviet Republic.

Please give him a room not higher than the 2nd floor and the warmest you have.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars