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The Ulyanov family, 1879 (Aleksandr standing in the middle, Vladimir sitting to the right). Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Улья́нов; 12 April [O.S. 31 March] 1866 – 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1887) [1] was a Russian revolutionary and political activist who was executed for planning an assassination against Alexander III of Russia.
The Ulyanov family, 1879 (Dmitry sitting in the middle, Vladimir sitting to the right) Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Дми́трий Ильи́ч Улья́нов; 16 August [O.S. 4 August] 1874 – 16 July 1943) was a Russian and Soviet physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin.
The reading was interrupted by barracking from the audience, who objected to Plekhanov's criticism of Russian populism, one of whom suggested that it was an insult to the memory of Lenin's older brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, who been hanged for plotting to assassinate the Tsar. Afterwards, Peshkov was taken aside by Fedoseyev, who taught him the ...
At the time, Lenin's elder brother Alexander, whom he affectionately knew as Sasha, was studying at Saint Petersburg University. Involved in political agitation against the absolute monarchy of the reactionary Tsar Alexander III, Alexander studied the writings of banned leftists and organised anti-government protests. He joined a revolutionary ...
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, romanized: Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1878 – 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II.
Ilya's mother, Anna Alexeyevna Smirnova (1793–1871), was half-Kalmyk, half-Russian and the daughter of city-dweller Alexei Lukyanovich Smirnov, a son of Lukyan Smirnov. Nikolai married 30-year-old Anna in 1823. Ilya had three sisters and a brother. [5] Ulyanov graduated from Kazan University's Department of Physics and Mathematics in 1854.
A century later, the once-omnipresent image of Vladimir Lenin is largely an afterthought in modern Russia, despite those famous lines by revolutionary writer Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Red Square ...
Despite the emotional trauma brought on by his father and brother's deaths, Vladimir continued studying, leaving school with a gold medal for his exceptional performance, and decided to study law at Kazan University. [19] Lenin's headmaster at the gymnasium was Fedor Kerensky, the father of what would later become his arch-rival in 1917 ...