V. I. Lenin [antikvár]

Childhood and Youth. Early Revolutionary ActivityVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born on April 10 (22), 1870, in the town of Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), situated on the banks of the Volga. His childhood and youth were spent amid the wide-open spaces of that great Russian river, in the towns of Simbirsk, Kazan and Samara (now Kuibyshev).Lenin's grandfather was a native-born Russian serf peasant who lived in Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia.* In 1791 he moved to the Astrakhan Gubernia and thence to the city of Astrakhan, where he was registered in the lower middle class and where he died in great poverty.Lenin's father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, from his early youth felt the pinch of poverty and Guberniadin administrative and territorial unit in tsarist Russia. It was divided into uyezds, the latter were subdivided into volosts.Ed.