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Telegram to P. P. Myshkin, March 8, 1919
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| Author(s) | Lenin |
|---|---|
| Written | 8 March 1919 |
First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 200c-201a.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, pages 200c-201a.
Keywords : P. P. Myshkin, Telegram
8. III. 1919
Myshkin, Chairman of the Gubernia Extraordinary Commission
Tsaritsyn
You cannot arrest people for disfiguring a portrait. Free Valentina Pershikova at once, and if she is a counterâ revolutionary, keep an eye on her.[1]
Lenin
Chairman, Council of Peopleâs Commissars
- â Valentina Pershikova, a member of the staff of the Tsaritsyn Housing Department, was arrested for daubing a portrait of Lenin which she had torn out of a pamphlet. Requests for Pershikovaâs release were sent in telegrams to Lenin from V. S. Usachov, chief of one of the Tsaritsyn militia stations, and from Minin, a Red Army man. On Mininâs telegram Lenin wrote the following instruction to his secretary: âRemind me when the reply comes from the Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission (and afterwards hand all the material over to the topical satirists).â (Lenin Miscellany XXIV, p. 172.)