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Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances." [25] In his diary, Trotsky emphasised that he understood Lenin's reasoning, on the grounds that the militant workers and soldiers of Yekaterinburg would not have accepted any other course of action [170]
It can also disrupt the menstrual cycle, which may explain why Lenin and Krupskaya never had children. [11] Upon his release, Lenin went off to Europe and settled in Munich. Upon her release Krupskaya joined him (1901). After she arrived, the couple moved to London. Krupskaya wrote a memoir of her life with Lenin, translated in 1930 as Memories ...
Ilya was a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church and baptised his children into it, although Maria – a Lutheran – was largely indifferent to Christianity, a view that influenced her children. [9] Lenin's mother ran the household in a Protestant manner [10] [11] Both parents were monarchists and liberal conservatives, being committed ...
Chris Jackson/Getty Images. Anne is Queen Elizabeth’s only daughter. When she was born, Anne was third in line to the British throne behind her mother and King Charles. ... They now have two ...
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Streletskaya Ulitsa, Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on 22 April 1870, and baptised six days later; [2] as a child he was known as Volodya, the common nickname variant of Vladimir. [3] He was the third of eight children, having two older siblings, Anna (born 1864) and Alexander (born 1866).
To celebrate his recent ascension to the Danish throne, King Frederik, 55, and his wife, Queen Mary, 51, were joined by their four children at Aarhus Cathedral for a special church service.
The Queen was just 22 when she gave birth to her first son and heir to the throne, Charles. He was born on November 14, 1948, which meant he was only 3 years old when his mother ascended the ...
She was the elder daughter among the six children of the Tsesarevich Alexander and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark). After the assassination of her paternal grandfather Tsar Alexander II of Russia (13 March [ O.S. 1 March] 1881), when Xenia was five years old, her father ascended to the ...