Comrade Yezhov!

I very much ask you to pay attention to the letter of Brik. Mayakovsky was and remains the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch. Indifference to his memory and his works is a crime. Brik's complaints, in my opinion, are justified. Get in touch with her (with Brik), or summon her to Moscow, involve Tal and Mekhlis, and please do everything that has been neglected by us. If my help is needed, I am ready.

Greetings!

I. Stalin.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 11. D. 1118. L. 148.

Note: Written on a letter of L.Yu. Brik of November 24, 1935, concerning the publication of the poet's works and the perpetuation of his memory. The fragment "Mayakovsky was and remains the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch. Indifference to his memory and his works is a crime" was published in Pravda on December 5.