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Bolshevik leadership Correspondence. 1912-1927
Collection of documents 1996.
Compiled by: A.V.Kvashonkin, L.P.Kosheleva, L.A.Rogovaya, O.V.Khlevnyuk.G. K. Ordzhonikidze to I. V. StalinApril 22, 1918
From Rostov-on-Don] 1 , tov. Stalin. Kremlin.
April 22, 1918
Today we had skirmishes with the Left Beks2 and the Socialist-Revolutionaries. The Central Committee adopted a resolution that requires Commander-in-Chief Antonov to issue an order to military units, in the event of their transfer to the territory of the Don region, to immediately disarm and transfer weapons into the hands of the Soviet government, officially invited Tsekuk 3 to leave Taganrog. An Extraordinary Commission was elected and sent to Taganrog to carry out the liquidation of Tsekuk.
Today Bubnov was with us, with whom we had a pretty quarrel. Our situation is nothing at all, although in almost all the villages of the Novocherkassk district the most fierce civil war is going on. It is necessary to hastily send us a large number of cartridges and shells, this must be done as quickly as possible, since the possibility of Chertkovo being occupied by the Germans is not ruled out, after which we will be cut off from the north.
Do you know that the Germans have entered the Kerch Bay, the situation on the Antonov front is formidable 4 . Today Antonov reported that Trotsky was summoning him hastily to Moscow, but Antonov cannot go now, find out what is the matter, that he is being summoned .
Muravyov sent a telegram addressed to Yegorov, inviting him to work, and he was arrested by Antonov.
Tell me the situation in detail and hastily give an answer, I'm waiting at the apparatus.
Ordzhonikidze.
RTSKHIDNI. F. 85. Op. 6. D. 50. L. 1. Certified typewritten copy.
Notes:
1 Being the Extraordinary Commissar of Ukraine (the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of December 19, 1917), Ordzhonikidze was in Rostov-on-Don in April 1918.
2 Left Bolsheviks.
3 CEC of the Soviets of Ukraine.
On April 22, 1918, a radiogram from the Central Fleet arrived at the Council of People's Commissars, in which it was reported that the German and Austrian troops had crossed Perekop and were approaching Simferopol. (Civil War in Ukraine. 1918-1920. Collection of documents and materials. Kyiv, 1967. Vol. 1. Book 1. P. 128).
5 April 21, 1918 in Lugansk, Antonov-Ovseenko received a telegram from Trotsky with a proposal to urgently leave for Moscow. On April 22, Antonov-Ovseenko left for Moscow, where he made a report on the situation in Ukraine. After the report, he specified the plan for the retreat of the Ukrainian Soviet troops to Great Russia and their formal disarmament (Antonov-Ovseenko V.A. Notes on the Civil War. M.-L., 1928. T. 2. S. 245, 250).