683. TELEGRAM TO N. N. KRESTINSKY

Written on March 29, 1922 Sent to Berlin · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXV. Printed from the original. · page 518

Do everything you can to obtain at once a visa for Avanesov, Deputy People’s Commissar for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection. Visiting German doctors have found him to be dangerously ill. The spring is especially dangerous for him. He must go immediately. Do your best. We give all guarantees. Reply at once.^[1]

Lenin

Notes

[1] On March 31, 1922, the R.S.F.S.R. mission in Germany reported that the German Foreign Ministry was prepared to grant V. A. Avanesov a visa immediately, provided his trip was for purely health reasons.