Vladimir Ilich Lenin

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ssination of Alexander III. The same fate that Alexander II had suffered in 1887. They also arrested Aleksandr’s sister Anna, who was also studying in St. Petersburg at that time. On May 20, 1887 Aleksandr and his four coconspirators were executed in St. Petersburg. His sister Anna was not proven guilty with hard evidence of involvement in Aleksandr’s plot, and was exiled to Kokushkino an estate that Maria Aleksandrova (Aleksandr’s daughter) had inherited from her father, and placed under police surveillance.
Vladimir’s inexpressive reaction to the news of his brother’s death surprised nobody. He gained his reputation at the gymnasium for reserve.
He simply said: “I’ll make them pay for this! I swear it!”
Following his graduation in June of 1887, Vladimir applied for admission to Kazan University, where he wanted to study law. At this point in his life, he still believed that Russia could only be changed by legal means, not by revolutionary action.
Ulyanov got excellent marks in his entrance examination; he realized that the University authorities might no look kindly on the brother of an execent terrorist. He got in with the help from the director of the gymnasium, Fyodor Kerenky, who wrote a glowing testimonial for him.
Ulyanov’s undergraduate career at Kazan University ended just weeks after it began. In December 1887 he went to a student meeting held to protest the government’s decision to close down fraternity clubs on the ground that they were hotbeds of sedition. Police spies noted the names of the students who attended, and Ulyanov, even though he had done nothing wrong, was expelled from the University.
About eight month later Ulyanov received his name that he is known in Russian History as Lenin, and was allowed under terms and a lot of different conditions to examine for his allowance ba...