Word: ulyanov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, 70, widow of Nikolai Lenin (real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), "Grand Old Woman" of the Russian Revolution; in Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee...
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...late, great Dictator's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Old Bolsheviks speak of him as "Ilyich." He took the pen name "N. Lenin." Though the N. stood only for "N." millions have assumed that it stood for "Nikolai...
...Josef Stalin as Secretary of the Party is Boss. When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud...
...most irrepressible characters were not disposed to maintain their tour on such a great-man-&-great-lady basis. As is their custom, they cavorted and japed in the most public places. Only at the Red Square in Moscow, where they gazed upon the mummy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), was Dramatist-Publicist Shaw as dignified as his impressive appearance. Over the corpse he commented: "A pure intellectual type. This is the true aristocracy." Other parts of the Shaw-Astor itinerary...