Anna Ulyanova
| Anna Ulyanova | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
26 August [O.S. 14 August] 1864 Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
19 October 1935 (aged 71) Moscow, USSR |
Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (Russian: Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова; 26 August [O.S. 14 August] 1864, Nizhny Novgorod - 19 October 1935, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet stateswoman. The older sister of Vladimir Lenin and of Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, she married Mark Timofeyevich Yelizarov (1863-1919), who became Soviet Russia's first People's Commissar for Transport (in office, 1917-1918).
In 2011 the State Historical Museum in Moscow put on display a 1932 letter from Anna to Joseph Stalin, in which she reveals that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish native of Zhitomir who converted in order to leave the Pale of Settlement. She asked Stalin to make this publicly known in order to counter increasing anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union at the time, but he refused and told her to keep the matter secret.[1]
References
- ↑ Mansur Mirovalev, "Moscow museum puts Lenin's Jewish roots on display", Associated Press, 23 May 2011 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
External links
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Entry on Anna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (in Russian)
- English translation of Great Soviet Encyclopedia article