Only a few decades ago, the name of Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova was pronounced with great reverence: after all, she was the mother of the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin. Then other times came. Those who gathered dirt on the communist leaders did not ignore Maria Alexandrovna.
From the biography of Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova
The mother of future revolutionaries was born on March 6, 1835 in St. Petersburg. As a girl, she bore the surname Blank. When the girl was six years old, the family left Petersburg. The childhood of Maria Alexandrovna passed in the Kazan province: here she lived in the village of Kokushkino. Maria's father was an outlandish adviser and physiotherapist.
In 1861, Maria Alexandrovna met a friend of her sister's husband, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov. Soon, young people got married. Later, the family moved to Simbirsk, where Ulyanov received the position of inspector, and then the director of district schools. In 1886, Ilya Nikolaevich passed away. Maria Alexandrovna was left with six children.
Another blow of fate awaited the woman: her eldest son, being a student at the capital's university, joined the Narodnaya Volya and in 1887 was sentenced to be hanged as a participant in a conspiracy against the sovereign. Subsequently, all the other children of Maria Alexandrovna, one way or another, were engaged in revolutionary activities. Mother supported their life choices.
In recent years, publications began to appear, the authors of which tried to discredit the name of M.A. Ulyanova and prove that Alexander was her illegitimate son. Such speculation did not find any serious confirmation and response among authoritative historians.
