Telegram to Joseph Stalin, July 15, 1919

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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

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