Translated from: ru/1902/1902-10-30_proshenie_na_imya_knyazya_gs_golitsyna.txt

To the Office of the Governor-General

From the detainee held in custody
at the Batumi City Prison,

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

PETITION

Being predisposed to pulmonary tuberculosis and seeing my health deteriorate day by day, I humbly venture to petition the Office of His Excellency not to leave me without attention and to release me, or at least to expedite the proceedings of my case.

Petitioner:

Iosif Dzhugashvili

30 October 1902

Ostrovsky, A.V. Who Stood Behind Stalin. Moscow, 2002. p. 197.

RGASPI. F. 558. Op. 4. D. 619. L. 172.

NOTE

The petition bears the following inscription:

"I have the honor to submit this petition to His Honor the Deputy Prosecutor of the Batumi District. I report that, as can be seen from the directive of the Prosecutor of the Tiflis Judicial Chamber dated 16 October of this year, No. 1422, the case of the said prisoner has been transferred to the Office of the Governor-General. Prison Warden [signature]. No. 3097, 30 October 1902."