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Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (Russian: Мария Александровна Ульянова; née Blank; 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1835 – 25 July [O.S. 12 July] 1916) [1] was the mother of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who in 1922 founded the Soviet Union. She was born in Saint Petersburg as Maria Alexandrovna Blank, one of six ...
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 ...
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).
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]
Krupskaya in 1876. Nadezhda Krupskaya was born to an upper class but impoverished family. Her father, Konstantin Ignatyevich Krupski (1838–1883), was a Russian military officer and a nobleman of the Russian Empire who had been orphaned in 1847 at the age of nine.
Paul McCartney is a family man through and through. The Beatles icon, who has been married three times, has welcomed five children and eight grandchildren since his rise to stardom began in the 1960s.
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva [a] (née Stalina; [b] 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
Mary Anne MacLeod at Clydebank in Scotland in 1934 [Getty Images] Mr Trump's mother became a US citizen in 1942 and died in 2000, aged 88. But she returned to Lewis throughout her life and always ...