The leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin in rare photographs of the October Revolution (part 2)

And Lenin is so young: The strangest and funniest monuments to the leader of the Russian revolution

The older generation remembers well how dozens of people carried flowers to the Lenin monument on November 7. The sculptures of the leader grew all over the country, and beyond its borders, like mushrooms. In the heat of fanatical veneration, Soviet people did not even notice that some of the statues looked very ridiculous and even caricatured. Well, after the collapse of the USSR, daring sculptors began to deliberately create allegorical parody monuments. We offer a selection of the strangest and even funniest images of Lenin, set at different times in

The leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin in rare photographs of the October Revolution

Modern historians, political scientists and even ordinary people have an ambiguous attitude to the personality of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. And in the days of the USSR, he was called with trepidation the leader of the world proletariat, and his portraits hung not only in the offices of officials, but also in the nursery groups of kindergartens. This review contains photographs of Lenin that did not often appear on the pages of printed publications

Love in the name of the revolution, or the personal tragedy of the wife of the leader of the revolution, Nadezhda Krupskaya

She devoted her whole life to her husband, revolution and building a new society. Fate deprived her of simple human happiness, the disease took away beauty, and her husband, to whom she remained faithful all her life, cheated on her. But she did not grumble and bravely endured all the blows of fate

Lenin in the cinema: Which of the actors was the most convincing in the role of the leader of the proletariat

In world cinema, there are roles that have been played by dozens of actors. Lenin became one of the most popular images of Russian films, while actor's interpretations have changed significantly over the century. Whose reincarnation turned out to be the most original and successful - it's up to you to judge

Yashka Koshelkov vs Lenin: How the leader of the proletariat nearly lost his life at the hands of a criminal

Several attempts were made on the leader of the world proletariat. Among their organizers were the emigrant Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy, the Petrograd Union of the Knights of St. George, and radical Social Revolutionaries. But, paradoxically, the greatest chances to change the course of history were given to an ordinary criminal: in January 1919, Lenin almost fell victim to Yakov Koshelkov's gang. Vladimir Ilyich miraculously managed to stay alive and get off with a robbery