Education and Art in Soviet Russia/Document 31
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DOCUMENT No. 31
Degree Regarding the Moscow and Petrograd Conservatories
The Soviet of People's Commissaires decrees:
The Petrograd and Moscow Conservatories are entrusted to the care of the People's Commissariat of Education on an equal basis with all other higher educational institutions, thus dissociating them from the Russian Musical Society. All the properties and inventories of said conservatories, indispensable and adopted for purposes of State Musical Reconstruction, are declared. state property of the people.
Chairman of the Soviet of People's Commissaires,
V. Ulianov (Lenin)
People's Commissary of Education,
A. Lunacharsky.
Chief Clerk of the Soviet of People's Commissaires,
Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich.
Moscow, July 12th, 1918.