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A cipher telegram from Kostroma with a request for permission to open the relics of St. Barnabas of Vetluzhsky. April 27, 1922
No. 23-38 * 37
Received for decryption
June 27, 1922 at 21 o'clock 5 minutes.
VERY SECRET.
ON PERFORMANCE SUBMIT TO THE SECRET ARCHIVE
FROM KOSTROMA
MOSCOW Central Committee of the RCP.
27 / ІѴ-22 years old. The so-called relics of Barnabas are revealed to Barnabas with the removal of the silver tomb. The executive committee and the Ukom are asked permission to open them. We ask for instructions and the possibility of opening the relics.
RESPONSIBLE SECRETARY FEIGE
- L. 60. Typewritten original on the form of the cipher telegram of the Central Committee of the RCP (b). The stamp confirming that the document belongs to the office work of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 5, item 7 of May 4, 1922 (No. 23-40). Stamp of the Secret Archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) with an inventory number. Incoming number of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) with the date "29 / IV.22". Formulas of secrecy and about the transfer to the archive in stamps. Notes and Comments:
The case contains a cover letter on the letterhead of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to these two documents, sent on May 2, 1922 on behalf of I.V. Stalin for conclusion to L.D. Trotsky, signed by A.M. Nazaretyan. On the letter by hand of L. D. Trotsky there is a resolution: “To the Politburo. Trotsky. " A stamp and a handwritten note on the document's belonging to the office work of the Politburo meeting, minutes No. 5, item 7 of May 4, 1922 (No. 2340). Stamp of the Secret Archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) with an inventory number. (L. 59).
37 Barnabas Vetluzhsky - saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, died in 1445. For the campaign to eliminate the relics of the saints, see comm. 10 to d. 25.