Ilya Ulyanov
Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov was a Russian public figure in the field of public education. He was the father of revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin, who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union, and Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was executed for his attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III in 1887.
Ilya Ulyanov was born in Astrakhan to a Chuvash father, Nikolai Vasilievich Ulyanov , a portcity tailor and a former serf who came from Sergachsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. He received his freedom from a landowner, Stepan Mikhailovich Brekhov. Ilyas mother, Anna Alexeyevna Smirnova , was the daughter of a rich citydweller Alexei Lukyanovich Smirnov . Nikolai married the 23yearold Anna in 1823. Ilya had three sisters and a brother.
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