In Moscow, on March 25, Vladimir Lenin’s niece Olga Ulyanova, the daughter of the younger brother of the leader of the Soviet state Dmitry Ulyanov, died. Lenta.ru writes about this, citing the website of the government of the Ulyanovsk region.
The causes of her death have not been reported. At the beginning of March, Lenin’s niece turned 89 years old. The regional government website states that she was the last direct descendant of the Ulyanov family. Olga Ulyanova herself, however, in 2003 spoke in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper about other descendants of the Ulyanovs, descended from illegitimate son her father. Ulyanova is survived by a daughter and granddaughter.
Olga Ulyanova graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, defended her PhD thesis and became an associate professor at the university. She is the author of dozens of books and articles about Vladimir Lenin and the Ulyanov family. From the interview:
Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova
Lenin’s niece Olga ULYANOVA: “When I was brought from the maternity hospital, Uncle Volodya came,
who said: “How similar. Even the right eye is squinting the same way.”
On the eve of the next anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Lenin's niece, member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR Olga Ulyanova, as a rule, was kept under siege by several publications at once. The Soviet Union has been gone for a long time... And the siege changed all its meanings. No reverence. The world is still divided into black and white, and therefore it is a pleasure to attack one of the “former” people who have learned what old age and weakness are.
Olga Dmitrievna does not trust today's press.
- As you said? “Komsomolets”? Okay, I’ll think about it, just first give me your word that you will read my book “Native Lenin.” You will understand a lot...
- Honest Komsomol! - I promised carefree.
Lenin is no longer relevant for bookstores today, and the book is found with great difficulty in the office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
- Take more - to the editor! - some communist guy advises.
After reading “Native Lenin,” a dense row of revolution leaders appeared before my eyes and the prospect of talking about the less political aspects of the life of Lenin, Krupskaya, Dmitry Ulyanov and other members of the family, who changed a single country beyond recognition 86 years ago. Waving “Native Lenin” like a pass, I get to the desired floor.
“Just please don’t tell anyone where I live,” the hostess closes the door behind me.
- I understand - conspiracy.
The joke passes. By the way, Ulyanova has a very beautiful young laugh.
Kremlin girl
- You are now the only Ulyanov who saw the most famous member of the family - Lenin - during his lifetime.
- I was not even two years old when Vladimir Ilyich died. So he saw me more than I saw him. Dad recalled: “When we brought you from the maternity hospital, Uncle Volodya came. He looked at you for a long time and said: “How similar. Even the right eye is squinting the same way.” Vladimir Ilyich and dad's right eye was slightly squinted.
“It just so happened that your aunts and uncle were childless. The attention to your only niece was probably increased?
- Certainly. For example, I can tell you about this fact. On March 6, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich wrote a note to the secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Enukidze with a request for the provision of firewood to Anna Ilyinichna Ulyanova-Elizarova, since in the family of her brother Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, who lives with her, appeared Small child. I found out about this note forty years later and cried with happiness that Uncle Volodya cared so much about me.
- Did you feel like a girl from the Kremlin?
- No. In general, many children lived in the Kremlin, and we all played together, there was no caste. I had a girlfriend there, we are still friends, from a completely simple family. Her name is Tamara, she is the daughter of an ordinary Kremlin employee.
- How did you become friends with her?
“I was eight years old then, we became friends and that was it.” Something in common was immediately felt.
- In the girls' intrigues, who protected whom?
- There was one girl in our company, the leader, who attacked me: “Why are you, Lyalka, leaving at nine in the evening, when we are still walking?!” But my mother did not allow me to come later. And this girl said that they don’t hang out with me now. The next day Tamara came to me and said: “Don’t pay attention to her, and I will always hang out with you.”
- And there was no envy?
- I don’t know what there was to be jealous of.
- Maybe your dad brought you some chic foreign shoes...
- He didn’t bring me anything. We only wore Soviet clothes, because we did everything very well. We wore boots that had to be put on over our shoes. You know, in the thirties, boots were produced in all colors, and they went abroad. This is an incredibly convenient thing. Nowadays, anyone with dirty shoes or even boots goes straight to the apartment. I know one and only doctor who, when entering an apartment, takes off his boots; the rest have no time.
- You are being modest. Lenin had two cars of a foreign brand, which are still considered fashionable.
- It’s funny for me to hear this. Ridiculous! Vladimir Ilyich drove a Rolls-Royce in winter because it was very convenient: this car had front wheels on skis, and the rear wheels were driven. The roads were bad then, especially to Gorki.
- In the summer, he also drove a Rolls, and the family probably enjoyed no less privileges...
- But these were state machines, and not Vladimir Ilyich personally! Of course, dad also called a car from a special garage; Nadezhda Konstantinovna and Maria Ilyinichna had attached cars with drivers. The Rolls-Royce was considered Lenin's car, and we rarely drove it. By the way, for example, this did not bring me any joy, because I always felt seasick. I walked to school. I studied with Mikoyan’s eldest son, and our mothers, while we were little, took turns accompanying us. The metro was opened in 1935. By the way, in the mid-90s, that Rolls was in the Lenin Museum, and one photographer asked me to pose behind the wheel, but I didn’t see this photo.
The story about the bone
When the leader of the proletarian revolution became seriously ill, the influence of the Ulyanov family began to decline sharply. To show how much, it is enough to give one example with the participation of a woman, which will be discussed a little later. Returning from Sochi, Stalin “jokingly” warned Krupskaya: “If you become dissident, we will give Comrade Lenin another widow.” When Ilyich died, everything got even worse. Although Olga Dmitrievna does not agree with the statement about the decline in influence, her next words are precisely about this.
“August Ivanovich Kork, commander of the second rank, once at lunch handed me a chicken bone-arch and said: “Break it, Lyalya,” says Ulyanova. “I started to pull it, but it turned out to be strong. I didn’t understand anything, but mom and dad looked and smiled. The crust was, of course, stronger and quickly broke the bone. Most of it remained with him, and the smaller part remained with me. He said: “You keep your soul mate, and I will keep mine. When we see you again, we will put these halves together.” - “And again there will be a whole arch?!” - I was happy. Then the little bone was lost, and the story with the bow was forgotten. I remembered about it much later, in 1937: the newspapers said that military leaders were sentenced to death for treason. Among them I saw the familiar name Cork. It was difficult for me to imagine this: August Ivanovich could not, kindest person, be a fascist!
But even in this story, Olga Dmitrievna blames everything on the devil Hitler - Stalin did not recognize the obvious disinformation.
- In these difficult years Dad lost many close friends - Christian Balman, Andrei Mogilny. Mogilny’s daughter, Laura, was my peer and friend.
- Couldn’t Dmitry Ilyich help them with anything? After all, Lenin’s brother...
- Dad said that he called Molotov, spoke with someone from the NKVD. He was absolutely confident in his friends, he said that he vouched for them, but the machine had already worked... Before the war, people with German roots and surnames suffered. Our teacher German language Schlotthauer, for example, suddenly moved from Moscow to Central Asia and never returned. Either they didn’t let him in, or he settled there...
- Wasn’t Dmitry Ilyich afraid that this “machine” would crush him too?
- Dad was never afraid of anything! He was very respected then. Although he, of course, saw the situation.
Time of Troubles in Gorki
- From birth until the age of twenty-seven, you lived either in the Kremlin or in Gorki. I was surprised to learn that the Ulyanovs were once evicted from their country house...
- This story began in 1939, when Nadezhda Konstantinovna died. One day in May, dad called me to his place and said: “You know, Lyalya, we will have to move from the Big House to the third dacha.”
Mom and I went to look at those rooms, but I was worried about another question: where would dad go for walks? Nearby is the Pakhra River, a road, in summer the noise and din of the public from the side of the river, one word - a passage yard.
Naturally, no one explained anything to me; my dad always treated me with care and tried to protect me from negative information. After some time, I found out that someone himself wanted to live in the Big House.
- Who?
- Not Stalin. Joseph Vissarionovich treated Lenin and the family in general very well and therefore would never have... I don’t know who. Dad called Stalin, and then very happily told me: we are not moving anywhere. I was also very happy, mainly for my dad. He was sick then and needed walks in the park, not to mention the fact that Gorki was his native place. What exactly happened then remains a mystery to me.
- How did the family leave Gorki?
- No, she didn’t leave, everyone left gradually. First Aunt Anya died, then Aunt Manya and Aunt Nadya. Only dad, mom and I were left in Gorki. The war has begun. When it became unsafe in Moscow, Stalin invited dad to leave wherever he wanted. Dad chose Ulyanovsk. We returned in 1943. Dad was very happy to return home. On July 16, he and my mother went to Gorki, and I stayed in Moscow, I had to study English. Mom called: “Come with a doctor urgently!” I flew there like crazy, but didn’t even have time to say goodbye to him...
Life was in full swing in the Big House when all the Ulyanovs lived. Then life froze, and the house stood dead. It was difficult to get into it. My mother and I left Gorki in 1949 and were settled in Kuntsevo, in the rest house of the Central Committee of the Party.
Such a loving Aunt Nadya
I really wanted to change the tradition of recent years, so we hardly talk about Inessa Armand. Nadezhda Konstantinovna maintained friendly relations with Armand’s daughters, and after her death all the threads were cut off.
- One of Inessa’s granddaughters, Inna, studied with me at the same school, but we were not friends because she was arrogant. She was very proud that her grandmother knew Vladimir Ilyich. It was somehow unclear to me.
But Olga Dmitrievna speaks about Krupskaya with obvious pleasure.
- Judging by the book, you shared a particularly warm relationship. Tell me, what did Aunt Nadya give to her beloved niece?
- One day, Aunt Nadya was brought from somewhere two cuts for a dress - pink and blue. “Choose what color dress you want!” - she suggested to me. I chose pink. “Very good, let mom sew something for you,” Aunt Nadya smiled. At first I took care of the silk piece for a long time, and then my mother sewed me a dress. She also brought me all sorts of figurines. And she never gave me what are now commonly called gifts - chains, rings - and never wore them herself. Maria Ilyinichna, Anna Ilyinichna, my mother will only occasionally pin a brooch, but they did without decorations.
- You talked a lot with Krupskaya, what feeling did you get - she and Lenin were connected by love?
- Did they have love? God bless you - of course she was! We were rarely able to speak without witnesses. Nadezhda Konstantinovna’s secretary, whom Krupskaya herself called Cerberus in her notes, was constantly with her. Dridzo treated me with obvious hostility, and I felt it, as all children feel the attitude of adults towards themselves. She was tall and beautiful. But beauty did not save her face; it was unpleasant. After all, it happens that an unpleasant facial expression spoils the whole appearance generally. “Lala! - Olga Dmitrievna curled her lips funny and childishly, pretending to be Krupskaya’s secretary. - Lyalya, go away, you’re disturbing Nadezhda Konstantinovna!” Whenever I come in, it's the same thing. Nadezhda Konstantinovna usually protested, but because of Dridzo’s tone I felt uncomfortable and was in a hurry to leave. But she invariably flirted with men. That day Aunt Nadya was alone and suggested we go to Gorki for an hour or two. I asked her to tell me about how she and Uncle Volodya met. We climbed to the farthest corner of the park, onto a diagonal alley, and sat on a bench under an oak tree. She spoke joyfully, relaxedly, which immediately made her different from the usually reserved Nadezhda Konstantinovna. Her face became prettier, her eyes shone. She talked, and I imagined her as in the photo of 1894 - a pretty girl with a direct look. “How we loved each other, we loved each other all our lives! And in his biographies they write - comrade-in-arms, friend... There was happiness and love. He loved me, and I loved. He’s gone, but I love everything,” Aunt Nadya began to cry. “You see, Lyalechka, I talk about him and cry.”
On February 26, 1939, dad told mom and I to go to the Kremlin hospital to say goodbye to Aunt Nadya. We almost entered the room, but Dridzo blocked the door and did not let us in. Aunt Nadya probably heard her “I won’t let you in!”... Then I tried to ask my father about Krupskaya’s death, but he still protected me. One day, when I was completely fed up with him, dad looked me in the eyes and said: “Lyalya, don’t talk about Aunt Nadya.”
That is life
- Maria Blank had six children. Sasha was hanged, Olya died, four remained. How did it happen that the heirs are only on your father’s side?
- Aunt Manya, as you know, was not married. Nadezhda Konstantinovna wrote and told me more than once that she and Uncle Volodya loved children very much. But where, at what stage of life, could they have them? In Siberia? His prison term had ended, and Vladimir Ilyich accompanied Aunt Nadya to Ufa, because her term had not ended. And imagine, if they had taken a child there, and where would he go next - in prisons with his arrested mother?.. And Vladimir Ilyich - abroad? He would never do that.
- And then, when the arrests, exiles, revolution ended?
- It was a very difficult time. They constantly thought about the revolution, the state, and the Civil War began.
It has long been known that Nadezhda Krupskaya could not have children for medical reasons, and not because she was very busy with the revolution, translated Weber at night and slept in the bed next to Ilyich in Shushenskoye. Several years ago, facts confirming Stalin’s true attitude towards the Ulyanov couple became public knowledge. But it is useless to argue with Olga Dmitrievna on these topics. Frankly, I didn’t try very hard, because I’m sure that eighty-one is not the most suitable age for the collapse of illusions.
Olga Ulyanova - strong man. I know that she has to be torn between caring for her husband, who has long been confined to bed by illness, and visiting her doctor. To get everything done in the world, she gets up at six in the morning. Not trusting her hearing too much, she places a small alarm clock right under her ear. And so every day. She forbids writing about life’s difficulties, she doesn’t want anyone to think that she’s complaining.
Before signing “Native Lenin” for me, she methodically corrects all the typos with a ballpoint pen. She almost gives the book back, but her eyes catch on another offensive mistake: “Ce la vie...”
“Of course, “C,est la vie” – “such is life...”.

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O. D. Ulyanova

Native Lenin

(Vladimir Ilyich and his family).

Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova, the niece of V.I. Lenin, is widely known in Russia and abroad as an author who defends the memory of Vladimir Ilyich. These are her memories of Lenin and the Ulyanov family. She cites many unknown facts, gives a true genealogy, and talks about her life in the Kremlin and Gorki.

For a wide range of readers.

Dedicated to my beloved daughter Nadezhda

To the readers

Several years ago I decided to write a book about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, about the Ulyanov family. That is why I think it is very important to use the memories of his loved ones. My father, D.I. Ulyanov, my aunts, Maria Ilyinichna, Nadezhda Konstantinovna, Anna Ilyinichna, and my mother, Alexandra Fedorovna, told me a lot about Lenin.

At first I conceived the book as a collection of memoirs, but the vicissitudes of life convinced me that it should be different. To do this, I turned to studying documentary materials about V.I. Lenin.

I want to show the connection between the past and the present. After all, the life of the Ulyanov family is closely intertwined with the fate of our great Motherland, with its history and today. That is why I strive to present real facts about Lenin’s life.

I hope the reader will understand me, my approach to the proposed topic and to the title of the book - “Native Lenin”.

I would like people to get to know V.I. Lenin not through books in which lies and slander distort historical reality, but through his articles, works and his deeds.

Sincerely, Olga Ulyanova

In Moscow, Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova, V.I. Lenin’s dear niece, died at the age of ninety. Olga Dmitrievna is a chemist by training. After graduating from Moscow State University and defending her Ph.D. thesis, she worked for many years at the country's leading university as a teacher and associate professor. Olga Ulyanova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and a number of other government awards.
For many years, Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova was a collector and keeper of the history of her outstanding family. She is the author of more than 150 articles and books about Lenin. However, if in Soviet times, in her own words, it was a kind of “social burden,” then in the last two decades it has become the most important matter of life. After the collapse of the USSR, the anti-communist authorities are trying in every possible way to discredit and consign to oblivion the name and work of Lenin. Repeatedly at the highest level, plans were advanced to destroy the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.
As Ilyich’s closest relative, an honest and principled person, Olga Ulyanova did everything possible to resist the destroyers. Having joined the Communist Party in 1944, she remained true to her convictions until the end of her life. As a defender of V.I. Lenin, she repeatedly appeared on the pages of our newspaper.
“I have repeatedly stated and will repeat again that I am categorically against the reburial of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. There is no reason for this. Even religious ones. The sarcophagus in which he lies is located three meters below ground level, which corresponds to both burials according to Russian custom and the Orthodox canon.
Law Russian Federation“On burial and funeral affairs” provides: if there is no will of the deceased to rest in a specific cemetery and there is no consent of relatives for reburial, his remains must remain buried in the same place. Attempts to prove that there was a will that he should be buried in the Volkov cemetery are untenable. There is no such document and there could not be; our family also never had any conversations on this topic. Vladimir Ilyich died at a fairly young age - at 53 years old and, naturally, thought more about life than about death.
The initiative to preserve Lenin’s body in the Mausoleum belongs not to individuals, but to the entire people. The mausoleum was created in 1924 by decision of the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR by the outstanding architect Shchusev,” Olga Dmitrievna made this statement in January of this year, when, at the suggestion of United Russia deputies, the issue of Lenin’s reburial again began to be discussed.
Being a participant in many party congresses, she was the keeper of the party card for No. 1, owned by V.I. Lenin.
The bright memory of her will forever remain in the hearts of all who cherish greatness Soviet history and believes in the socialist future of our country.

When I mentally replayed the “film of my life,” remembering my family and friends, my eyes were suddenly opened to many things. Much of what was hidden from me, what remained unknown to me in Lenin, suddenly became clear. So a thick fog, dissipating, reveals everything hitherto hidden by it. I was shocked by the genius of Vladimir Ilyich...

Olga Dmitrievna ULYANOVA is the niece of V.I. Lenin, the daughter of his younger brother Dmitry Ilyich. Born on March 4, 1922. In addition to her parents, Anna Ilyinichna and Maria Ilinichna Ulyanov, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya influenced her development. In 1944 she joined the CPSU. Graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. She defended her PhD thesis and became an associate professor at the university. Member of the Union of Journalists. She published several books and more than 150 articles about V.I. Lenin and the Ulyanov family. She was awarded a number of government awards, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Lives in Moscow.

Fotieva's betrayal

- IN last years the topic of Lenin's will is being discussed, in which he allegedly asked to be buried in Petrograd at the Volkov cemetery next to his mother. I even read that Krupskaya was against embalming. Is this really true?

No. Since this was the decision of the Congress of Soviets, she, of course, was not against it. There was also no will regarding burial in the Volkov cemetery. Vladimir Ilyich fell ill at the age of 51. He was confident in his recovery and persistently treated himself. The thought of a will could not even enter his head. There was only a note, called “Letter to the Congress,” where Lenin recommended that Stalin be moved.

- As far as I know, this will was never carried out. Could you tell us more about this “Letter to the Congress” story and what consequences it had for your family?

I learned about this letter only after the XX Congress of the CPSU in 1956. Part of the letter was published in the closed bulletin “XV Congress of the CPSU (b)”, and the letter appeared in the open press only thirty-four years after it was written. After reading it, I thought for a long time about all the events that took place in our family, and reflected on what had happened over the years in the Soviet Union.

When I mentally replayed the “film of my life,” remembering my family and friends, my eyes were suddenly opened to many things. Much of what was hidden from me, what remained unknown to me in Lenin, suddenly became clear. So a thick fog, dissipating, reveals everything hitherto hidden by it. I was shocked by the genius of Vladimir Ilyich: how, being seriously ill physically, a year before his death he was able to write a letter to the congress and all the articles, now united under the general title “Political Testament.” He himself simply called them “Diary”. What extraordinary depth, clarity and speed was his mind, that even a serious illness could not prevent him from working! Lenin was able to write programmatic articles that are relevant to this day.

I then got the impression that the leadership of the CPSU, getting acquainted with Lenin’s political testament, considered it history and did not relate it to the present time. But all these articles are a program of activities for decades for us, his descendants. A program that will never become obsolete. And it was necessary to start implementing it as early as possible.

In December 1922, Vladimir Ilyich’s illness worsened. Fearing that she might take him by surprise, Lenin was in a hurry to complete his affairs. However, on December 23, he suffered paralysis of his right arm and leg, and he could no longer write on his own. He took it hard. He told the doctors that he was asking to be allowed to dictate to a stenographer a letter that was important to him for the party congress. The doctors gave permission, and the next day Lenin continued his dictation. Only the first part of the letter, which stated that the number of members of the Central Committee must be increased at the expense of the workers, was sent by Vladimir Ilyich to Stalin. “Such a reform,” Lenin wrote, “would significantly increase the strength of our party and would make it easier for it to fight among hostile states, which, in my opinion, can and should greatly intensify in the coming years. I think that the stability of our party would benefit a thousandfold thanks to such a measure.”

The main part of the letter to the congress, according to Lenin’s will, was transferred by Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya to the Party Central Committee after the death of Vladimir Ilyich, before the XIII Congress of the RCP (b). During the transfer, Nadezhda Konstantinovna wrote down: “Vladimir Ilyich expressed a strong desire that this note of his, after his death, be brought to the attention of the next party congress.”

Until the end of his days, V.I. Lenin was convinced that his letter would be kept sealed until the party congress. This was very important, since the letter gave purely personal characteristics to the members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Communist Party. However, as it turned out later, Vladimir Ilyich’s secretary, L.A. Fotieva, violated Lenin’s will by informing Stalin about the contents of this secret message. In an explanation she wrote to Kamenev on December 29, 1922, Fotieva justified herself by saying that she allegedly did not know about the secrecy of Lenin’s letter and that the stenographer allegedly did not warn her. What Fotieva did was a gross violation of Lenin’s will, and simply a deception of Vladimir Ilyich.

I never saw Fotieva at Aunt Nadya’s or Aunt Manya’s, much less at my father’s, at our home. I didn’t meet her at Aunt Anya’s in Gorki either. Although very many acquaintances big family I knew the Ulyanovs and remember them well. For example, the daughters of Inessa Armand - Inna and Varya. They often visited Aunt Nadya, and in the summer they lived in Gorki with their daughters, my peers.

I first saw Fotieva in the fall of 1941 in Ulyanovsk. My father came to the V.I. Lenin House-Museum, my mother and I were also with him. She tried to show attention, even ingratiated herself a little with her father. But Dmitry Ilyich was cold and taciturn.

“Dad, who is it?” - I asked when she left.

“This is Fotieva, Volodya’s former secretary,” the father answered.

I was surprised by my dad’s coldness, which was completely unusual for him. He didn't say anything else, and I didn't ask. Mom was also silent. Much later, after the death of my father, I met Fotieva more than once at the Central Museum of V.I. Lenin in Moscow. She worked there for quite a long time, but I don’t know what she did. One could feel some kind of aloofness and arrogance in her.

Ilyich is not to blame

- The name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is associated with the execution royal family. How valid are these suspicions and accusations?

Indeed, in Lately There are many versions that Lenin is to blame for the execution of the royal family, although it is known for certain that he did not take any part in the execution of Nicholas II and his family. On the contrary, he was categorically against their execution. This is how events actually unfolded.

When the Regional Council of the Urals met in Yekaterinburg in 1918 on the question of what to do with the royal family, the majority was inclined to shoot. This was explained primarily by the difficult military situation: Kolchak’s army was moving from the east, and monarchists supporting the tsar were moving from the south and southwest. As a result, they decided that the military commissar of Yekaterinburg, Philip Goloshchekin, would go to Moscow to see the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Sverdlov, and obtain his permission to execute him. Sverdlov told Vladimir Ilyich Lenin about this meeting.

Vladimir Ilyich spoke out in favor of bringing the Tsar and Tsarina to Moscow and organizing a show trial for the whole world: “It’s the All-Russian trial with publication in newspapers. Calculate the human and material damage the autocrat inflicted on the country during the years of his reign. How many revolutionaries were hanged, how many died in hard labor, in a war that no one wanted! To answer before all the people! Do you think that only the dark peasant among us believes in the “good” father-tsar? Not only, my dear Yakov Mikhailovich. How long has it been since our advanced St. Petersburg workers walked to the Winter Palace with banners? Just some thirteen years ago. It is this incomprehensible “racial” gullibility that the open trial of Nicholas the Bloody should dispel into smoke ... "

Sverdlov conveyed all this to Goloshchekin and said: “This is how you explain it to your comrades from Yekaterinburg: “The All-Russian Central Executive Committee does not give official sanction for execution.”

- If we continue the story of the Romanovs’ fate, we will see that it turned out completely differently for another part of it. And your father was directly involved in this. Please tell us more about this.

Long before 1917, another part of the royal family - Nicholas II's mother Maria Fedorovna, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (the Tsar's uncle) with his family, as well as the Yusupov princes, Countess Vorontsova and others lived in Crimea. My father, Dmitry Ilyich, before the revolution was one of the leaders of the revolutionary underground of Crimea and worked as a doctor. There he met the Great October Revolution.

In order to prevent lynching of the Tsar's relatives, Dmitry Ilyich ordered to settle them, as well as the Yusupovs, in the Dulber Palace in Yalta (later the Red Banner sanatorium for workers), so that it would be more convenient to protect them and protect them from all kinds of oppression.

Even when Crimea was occupied by the Germans in 1918 and the Bolsheviks were forced to go underground, soldiers, faithful to their duty, managed to guard the palace. To the proposal of the commander of the German troops, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, to leave Crimea and move to Berlin with them, he, being confident in his safety, refused.

Later, when in 1919 the Red Army went on the offensive and moved to liberate the south of Ukraine and the Crimea occupied by the Entente troops, an English cruiser landed on the Yalta shores. On it, all the Romanovs, Yusupovs and others with all their property left the shores of Russia forever.

Failed laureate

- V.I. Lenin, could become a Nobel Prize laureate.

After the October Revolution, around the end of November 1917, the Norwegian Social Democratic Party proposed to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1917 to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Republic, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The submission to the Nobel Committee stated:

“Until now, Lenin has done most for the triumph of the idea of ​​peace. He not only promotes peace with all his might, but also takes concrete measures to achieve it.”

Students of the University of Constantinople (Turkey) also came up with a proposal to reward the leader of Russia, “the creator eternal peace Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Nobel Prize. The candidacy of the leader of the revolution for the Nobel Prize was announced a second time in May 1918. The Committee for Nobel Prizes rejected the petition of the Norwegian Social Democrats, but only for the reason that it was late by the deadline - February 1, 1918.

However, the committee decided that “if the existing Russian government succeeds in establishing peace and tranquility in the country, then the committee will have nothing against awarding V. I. Lenin the Peace Prize for next year" But the war that began in the spring of 1918 and the invasion of the Entente troops into the young Soviet Republic did not allow the Soviet government to establish peace in Russia.

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Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova
Occupation:	Associate Professor at Moscow State University, scientist, writer, journalist
Date of Birth:
Citizenship:	USSR USSR → Russia, Russia
Date of death:
Father:
Mother:	Alexandra Fedorovna Ulyanova (Karpova)
Spouse:	Alexey Nikolaevich Maltsev
Children:	Nadezhda Alekseevna Maltseva
Awards and prizes:

Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova(-) - niece of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov), daughter of his brother Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov.

IN Soviet time was awarded a number of government awards, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In the last years of her life she spoke out in favor of preserving Lenin's body in the mausoleum.

She was the custodian of party card No. 1, belonging to V.I. Lenin.

Descendants: daughter Nadezhda and granddaughter Elena.

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The attack of the 6th Jaeger ensured the retreat of the right flank. In the center, the action of the forgotten battery of Tushin, who managed to light Shengraben, stopped the movement of the French. The French put out the fire, carried by the wind, and gave time to retreat. The retreat of the center through the ravine was hasty and noisy; however, the troops, retreating, did not mix up their commands. But the left flank, which was simultaneously attacked and bypassed by the superior forces of the French under the command of Lannes and which consisted of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and Pavlograd hussar regiments, was upset. Bagration sent Zherkov to the general of the left flank with orders to immediately retreat.
Zherkov smartly, without removing his hand from his cap, touched his horse and galloped off. But as soon as he drove away from Bagration, his strength failed him. An insurmountable fear came over him, and he could not go where it was dangerous.
Having approached the troops of the left flank, he did not go forward, where there was shooting, but began to look for the general and commanders where they could not be, and therefore did not convey the order.
The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the regimental commander of the very regiment that was represented at Braunau by Kutuzov and in which Dolokhov served as a soldier. The command of the extreme left flank was assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment, where Rostov served, as a result of which a misunderstanding occurred. Both commanders were very irritated against each other, and while things had been going on on the right flank for a long time and the French had already begun their offensive, both commanders were busy in negotiations that were intended to insult each other. The regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were very little prepared for the upcoming task. The people of the regiments, from soldier to general, did not expect battle and calmly went about peaceful affairs: feeding horses in the cavalry, collecting firewood in the infantry.
“He is, however, older than me in rank,” said the German, a hussar colonel, blushing and turning to the adjutant who had arrived, “then leave him to do as he wants.” I cannot sacrifice my hussars. Trumpeter! Play retreat!
But things were getting to a point in a hurry. The cannonade and shooting, merging, thundered on the right and in the center, and the French hoods of the Lannes riflemen had already passed the mill dam and lined up on this side in two rifle shots. The infantry colonel walked up to the horse with a trembling gait and, climbing onto it and becoming very straight and tall, rode to the Pavlograd commander. The regimental commanders gathered with polite bows and with hidden malice in their hearts.
“Again, Colonel,” said the general, “I cannot, however, leave half the people in the forest.” “I ask you, I ask you,” he repeated, “to take a position and prepare to attack.”
“And I ask you not to interfere, it’s not your business,” the colonel answered, getting excited. - If you were a cavalryman...
- I’m not a cavalryman, colonel, but I’m a Russian general, and if you don’t know this...
“It’s very well known, Your Excellency,” the colonel suddenly cried out, touching the horse, and turning red and purple. “Would you like to put me in chains, and you will see that this position is worthless?” I don't want to destroy my regiment for your pleasure.