People often see Lenin's image on postcards, speaking to crowds, but not many people have seen images of his life.
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Lenin walks in the mountains near the town of Zakopane, Poland in 1913. He lived in this area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1912 until the outbreak of World War I, when he was arrested by Austrian military police on suspicion of being a spy and then released. (Photo: TASS) |
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Lenin walks with Vladimir Bonch Bruyevich, politician, historian, writer, personal secretary and his very close friend, October 16, 1918. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
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Lenin at the inauguration of the memorial plaque to those who died for peace and brotherly friendship between nations on November 7, 1918. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
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Lenin at the funeral of Soviet revolutionary and politician Mark Yelizarov on March 13, 1919. Mark Yelizarov was Lenin's brother-in-law and was buried in the Ulyanov family graveyard at the Volkovo cemetery. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
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Lenin on Red Square during a workers' march marking the anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1919. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
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Lenin writes notes at the Third Congress of the Communist International held on July 7, 1921 in the Kremlin. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
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Lenin plays with a dog at the Maxim Gorky estate in 1922, shortly before his death. Lenin's health had seriously declined and his doctor advised him to spend more time playing with animals to relax his mind. (Photo: MDF) |
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Lenin with his nephew Victor, son of his brother Dmitry Ulyanov in 1922. Viktor later became an engineer in Moscow and died in 1984. (Photo: MDF)./. |
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Lenin (right) plays chess with scientist and revolutionary Alexander Bogdanov while visiting Maxim Gorky (back, wearing a hat) on the island of Capri in 1908. (Photo: RIA Novosti) |
According to VOV.VN