STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator. Leader of the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Central ...

STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet Dictator. Leader of the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party 1922-52. An important and very rare T.L.S., `I. Stalin´, adding the annotation `Mandate confirmed – Commission of the Defense Council of the Republic´ in his hand, in Cyrillic, one page, cream paper, 4to, [Vyatka?], 20th January 1919, to Mikhail Barandokhin, Battalion Commander, in Cyrillic. The document bears two stamped ink seals, three countersignatures and three signed autograph annotations by Stalin, by Felix Dzerzhinsky dating his countersignature `20th January 1919 – F. Dzerzhinsky´ beneath Stalin´s signature, and by Alexander Beloborodov, the Soviet who ordered the execution of Tsar Nicholas II, stating `This mandate is confirmed, Comrade Barandokhin is given the right to mobilize all Soviet forces to establish communication and organize the arrears. Chairman of Ural Regional Soviet A. Beloborodov.´ An important Russian Civil War mandate granting authority to secure the districts of Vyatka, every disposable military resource being necessary to overturn the advancing White Army. The purple ink typed document is faded, but nor the bold handwritten annotations and signatures. Repaired to the verso and fold. Overall age wear and creasing, with small tears to the edges. Folded. FR £6000-9000 Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) Director of the Cheka, the Secret Police. Alexander Beloborodov (1891-1938) Soviet revolutionary. Beloborodov signed the order of execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Head of the Executive Committee of the Ural Regional Soviet. His association with Leon Trotskty disgraced him. He will be imprisoned and executed during Stalin´s purges. Two months after the present letter was written, Beloborodov was elected at the Central Committee and became candidate of the Party Congress in 1920. The present document was authenticated by Y.S. Beliankin, head of the Documents Researchs Department of the National Library in Russia, stating in part `The examined mandate contains genuine signatures of I. Stalin, F. Dzerzhinsky, dated 20th January 1919…also signed by Ural Soviet Chairman Alexander Beloborodov..Documents of that period are particularly rare and were rarely kept.´ Including a third part Cerificate of Authenticity.