Despite its antireligious policy the new Soviet leadership demonstrated interest towards Tibet during the years which followed the Russian revolution in 1917. In 1927-1928 it planned to send to Tibet a delegation of Soviet Buddhists headed by Agvang Dorjiev, who had the status of the Tibetan envoy. He made attempts to come to terms with the Soviet government and also became the leader of the “renovationist movement” which was loyal to the Soviet power and promulgated the need for the Buddhist clergy to abandon worldly aims and to return to simple living according to ancient Buddhist rules. The new mission should have been staffed by the “renovationists”. However, the mission to Tibet was cancelled despite the fact that the preparations were in the full sway. There exists a letter which was supposed to be handed to the Dalai Lama XIII. It was written in Tibetan and Mongolian and was printed in Leningrad. Russian translation of this letter is found in this article.