![]() ![]() Lenin stayed at his grandfather’s house in Kokushkino in the mid-1880s, via NatusikKZN on Tripadvisor He wrote a character reference for Lenin that helped him get into the University of Kazan, where he would study law. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Lenin had an ally in his school principal, the father of Aleksandr Kerensky, who would later lead the provisional government and be deposed by Lenin. When Lenin was 15, his father died, leaving Lenin as the head of a family that was stigmatized for having produced a state criminal. Despite being upper middle-class, this was not uncommon in Tsarist Russia, as only the nobility weren’t denied elementary civil and political rights. All five of the Ulyanov children who reached maturity joined the revolutionary movement. ![]() It was not, however, the sole defining feature. Aleksandr was a member of Narodnaya Volya and was engaged in terrorism against the autocratic monarchy of Russia, and in 1887, after being charged with conspiring to assassinate Tsar Alexander III, was hanged.Īlthough Vladimir Lenin had revolutionary tendencies before his brother’s death, the execution and the subsequent shunning of his family in liberal circles added to Vladimir’s radicalization. His brother, Aleksandr, greatly influenced his beliefs around socialism and the defeat of Tsarism. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (“Lenin” was added in 1901) was born into a wealthy middle-class family on April 22, 1870. Vladimir Lenin’s Early Life Vladimir with his sister, Olga, in 1874, via ![]()
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