Lenin (left) at the age of three with his sister, Olga Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Streletskaya Ulitsa, Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on 22 April 1870, and baptised several days later; [2] as a child he was known as Volodya, the common nickname of Vladimir. [3] He was the third of eight children, having two older siblings, Anna and Aleksandr. They were followed by three more children ...
WUFT: Greetings from Moscow, Russia, where Lenin's tomb attracts a new surge of visitors
Greetings from Moscow, Russia, where Lenin's tomb attracts a new surge of visitors
The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the mausoleum and see embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. According ...
Reuters: Goodbye Lenin? Russians flock to see Bolshevik leader's tomb before it closes for repairs
Goodbye Lenin? Russians flock to see Bolshevik leader's tomb before it closes for repairs
MSN: Goodbye Lenin? Russians Flock To See Bolshevik Leader's Tomb Before Closure
Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of pilgrimage for ...
WAMC: Greetings from Moscow, Russia, where Lenin's tomb attracts a new surge of visitors
Vladimir Lenin (born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia—died , Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern ...