Anna Ulyanova

Anna Ulyanova
Anna Ulyanova
Born	Anna Ilyinichna Ulyanova; 26 August [O.S. 14 August] 1864; Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhegorodsky Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	19 October 1935 (aged 71); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (Russian: Анна Ильинична Елизарова-Ульянова; 26 August [O.S. 14 August] 1864, Nizhny Novgorod – 19 October 1935, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet stateswoman. The older sister of Vladimir Lenin and of Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, she married Mark Timofeyevich Yelizarov (1863-1919), who became Soviet Russia's first People's Commissar for Transport (in office, 1917-1918).

In 2011 the State Historical Museum in Moscow put on display a 1932 letter from Anna to Joseph Stalin, in which she reveals that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish native of Zhitomir who converted in order to leave the Pale of Settlement. She asked Stalin to make this publicly known in order to counter increasing anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union at the time, but he refused and told her to keep the matter secret.[1]

References

Mansur Mirovalev, "Moscow museum puts Lenin's Jewish roots on display", Associated Press, 23 May 2011 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .

External links

Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Entry on Anna Yelizarova-Ulyanova (in Russian)
English translation of Great Soviet Encyclopedia article

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[1] Mansur Mirovalev, "Moscow museum puts Lenin's Jewish roots on display", Associated Press, 23 May 2011 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .