Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova

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Maria Ulyanova

Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova , nee Blank ( Russian Мария Александровна Ульянова * February 22 . Jul / 6. March  1835 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † July 12 jul. / 25. July  1916 greg. In Petrograd ) was the mother of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin .

Life

Marija Blank was the daughter of Israel Blank (* approx. 1799; † July 17, 1870), also Alexander Dimitijewitsch Blank , a doctor from Volhynia with German-Jewish roots who converted to Christianity, and his wife Anna Grosschopf of German and Swedish roots (* approx. 1798; † probably 1838). She grew up on her parents' estate Kokuschkino in the Kazan Governorate and was therefore only able to receive a home education, which, however, was solid: Among other things, Maria learned three foreign languages ​​as an autodidact (German, English, French), was able to play the piano well and read a lot especially western literature. In 1863 she passed the teacher examination as an external student, for which she had prepared independently. In the same year she married the teacher Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov , whom she had met on a visit to Penza , and took his family name.

Despite her education, Ulyanova was unable to pursue her job after marriage, as she was essentially devoted to her family. She gave birth to a total of eight children, two of whom (Olga 1868 and Nikolaj 1873) did not survive infancy. The remaining six children were:

After the death of her husband in 1886, Ulyanova took care of the family alone, received a widow's pension and, as a descendant of a noble person , managed to get a title of nobility for herself and her family members . After the death sentence against her older son Alexander , who belonged to a group of assassins, Ulyanova sent a pardon to Tsar Alexander III. personally. She was then allowed to visit her son in custody, but he was executed in 1887 despite a pardon.

Ulyanova also stood by her best-known son Vladimir during his revolutionary activities and visited him twice in exile, for example in France in 1902 and in Sweden in 1910. In addition, Lenin maintained regular correspondence with his mother until her death.

Marija Ulyanova died in July 1916 and was buried in the St. Petersburg Wolkowo Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Kruse: The family of Lübeck's chancellor and mayor Albert von Bardewik : with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), pp. 242–263 (p. 262); Günter Kruse: The Grosschopf family in St. Petersburg and their German-Baltic relatives and relatives in: Ostdeutsche Familienkunde Volume 1/2004, pp. 1–32
  2. ↑ Collective: VI Lenin. Biography. 2nd, expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 1964.

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SURNAME Ulyanova, Marija Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blank, Maria Alexandrovna (birth name); Ульянова, Мария Александровна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mother of Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1916
Place of death Petrograd