Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on April 22, 1870. In this photo from 1879, he poses with his family (front row, right).
A demonstration in Moscow in the period before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan was a Russian political revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918. Kaplan shot the leader twice with a pistol as he left a Moscow factory after delivering an address. Lenin survived, but his health was severely compromised.
Lenin's funeral on Red Square
Lenin's remains were placed in this mausoleum at the Kremlin wall.