361. To N. P. GORBUNOV^[1]

Written on September 3, 1921 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 283

Comrade Gorbunov:

Send an inquiry to the All-Russia Cheka.

There is nothing “accidental” in Tikhvinsky’s arrest: chemistry and counter-revolution are not incompatible.

3/IX.

Lenin

Notes

[1] Lenin wrote this note in connection with the petition from, the Russian Physico-Chemical Society requesting the release of M. M. Tikhvinsky, professor of chemistry, and other scientists arrested in the case of a Petrograd counter-revolutionary organisation.