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Telegram to the Orel Gubernia Executive Committee, April 12, 1919
Lenin wrote this telegram in connection with the receipt by him on April 12, 1919, of a telegram from Maxim Gorky reporting the arrest of the writer Ivan Volny in Maloarkhangelsk and asking for “an impartial investigation of the reasons for the arrest and his liberation under surveillance”. “I have no doubt of his political loyalty,” wrote Gorky.
See also this volume, documents 297 and 452.
12. IV. 1919
Gubernia Executive Committee
Orel
Copy to Uyezd Executive Committee
Maloarkhangelsk
Writer Ivan Volny has been arrested. His friend Gorky earnestly requests the greatest caution and impartiality in the investigation. Can he be set free under strict surveillance? Wire.
Lenin
Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars