Nikolai lenin biography for kids

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Владимир Ильич Ульянов); April 10(O.S.) = April 22(N.S.), 1870 - January 21, 1924) who used the alias Nikolai Lenin (Ленин) (most likely after the Siberian river Lena), was a Russian revolutionary, first leader of the Soviet Union and the namesake of Leninism.

He was born in Simbirsk[?], Russia and died in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia after a series of strokes resulting from an assassination attempt.

Nikolai lenin biography for kids

His embalmed body is on permanent exhibition in Moscow.

Lenin was the son of a civil service official, and distinguished himself in the study of Latin and Greek. In May of 1887 his eldest brother Alexander was hanged for participation in a plot on the life of TsarAlexander III.

This radicalized Lenin and later that year he was arrested, and expelled from Kazan University[?] for participating in