Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov

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Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov (1887)

Aleksandr Ulyanov ( Russian Александр Ильич Ульянов ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Il'ič Ul'janov ; born March 31 . Jul / 12. April  1866 greg. In Nizhny Novgorod , † May 8 jul. / 20th May  1887 greg. in Shlisselburg ) was a Russian revolutionary who belonged to the terrorist wing of the Narodniki . He was Lenin's older brother, whose real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov .

biography

Youth and education

Alexander Ulyanov came from a family of the lower nobility who were socially, culturally and liberally committed. Ulyanov's mother Maria Alexandrovna Blank (born March 6, 1835 in Saint Petersburg; † July 25, 1916), of German origin, married the math and physics teacher Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (born July 31, 1831 in Astrakhan ; † January 24, 1886 ) in 1863 ), who worked as an inspector of elementary school facilities and was raised to hereditary nobility in 1882. The parents lived in Simbirsk . The city on the Volga was later renamed Ulyanovsk in honor of Lenin.

In 1883 Alexander enrolled at the University of Saint Petersburg and studied biology. In 1886, the year his father died, he won a gold medal for his zoological studies on worms.

Assassination attempt on the tsar

Ulyanov pawned his gold medal to buy dynamite . Together with other students, including the Polish brothers Bronisław Piłsudski and Józef Piłsudski , he was part of the Narodnaja Volja terrorist faction , which, after the successful assassination attempt on the Russian Tsar Alexander II in March 1881, also killed his successor Alexander III. planned. When the young people were exploring the Tsar's route to St. Petersburg Cathedral, they were discovered by accident by the Petersburg police. Ulyanov was held prisoner with his comrades in the Peter and Paul Fortress and brought to justice.

During the trial, Ulyanov stated:

"We are encouraged to develop our intellectual abilities, but we are not allowed to use them for the benefit of the people."

In 1887 he was sentenced to death for participating in the failed assassination attempt and hanged in the Schluesselburg fortress .

Shortly before his arrest, Ulyanov translated Karl Marx 's work On the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right . Lenin, who was just graduating from high school, did not find out about this until after the execution , but immediately began to read the translation.

Eponyms

On April 1, 1980, the asteroid (2112) Ulyanov was named after him.

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  1. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 5283
personal data
SURNAME Ulyanov, Alexander Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ульянов, Александр Ильич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary, brother of Lenin
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1887
Place of death Key castle