Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: nationality

Who is Lenin by nationality? Many are interested in digging in the roots of the genealogical tree of the great leader. What did he consider himself to be? And who actually was? We will try to answer these questions.

How did Ulyanov-Lenin feel?

Considering this question, one can look at his questionnaires, which he filled out at all kinds of official events. Everywhere is written: Great Russian or Russian, as they began to call nationality under Soviet power. Other Bolsheviks also indicated real nationalities, for example, Trotsky noted that he was a Jew.

Lenin's nationality did not bother him at all, to him he treated as a given, as to the innate color of the eyes. I considered myself Russian, like Pushkin and Vladimir Dal, who was the son of a Dane and a Frenchwoman. The creator of the "Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language" claimed that the Russian person is the one who lives, speaks and thinks like Russian. This was also Lenin. His parents' nationality was perceived simply, because everyone spoke and thought in Russian.

Order of the Central Committee

After the departure from the life of Vladimir Ilyich (Ulyanov-Lenin), his nationality became interesting to the ruling circles, so the Central Committee gave the task to Anna Ilyinichna, his older sister, to carefully study the materials concerning the family pedigree. Having received the data, she finds among the ancestors of a Jew. Judging by her reaction, this fact greatly struck her, which means that the whole family, when Lenin was still alive, did not know about the presence of Jewish blood in the genes.

For all, including comrades of interests, strangers and even enemies, Lenin's nationality was Great Russian, as the French ambassador to the Russian Empire wrote about Lenin, that he was born on the Volga in Simbirsk and is a "pureblood". The answer to the first question is clear: the leader of the world proletariat sincerely believed that he was Russian. Did he have the right to do this?

The father's line

Consider the line of the father. To whom did Lenin treat her? Nationality in the Russian Empire was not indicated in passports, but religion was introduced. In police cases, which led to the suspect Ulyanov, the nationality was as follows: Great Russian. This state of affairs was determined by the fact that in official documents of the Republic of Ingushetia the nationality of the citizen was determined by the father's nationality. Let's trace the mother's line.

Mother Line

Who was Lenin by nature? The nationality of her family was well researched by scientists, her line is traced far. The ethnic composition of the ancestors along the women's line is diverse and represents a rival mixture of Europeans, for example, there are Germans and Swedes in the family. Here they managed without Russian and Jews, this little world with its customs and traditions was closed to strangers. We will not stay here, but go ahead. So, whose features does Lenin get? Nationality on the grandmother's line with my mother's side can be defined as follows: European.

Blank Alexander Dmitrievich

Thus, by the method of exclusion we came across the alleged main "accused" - this is Blank Alexander Dmitrievich. Before his baptism, his name was sonorous - Israel Moishevich Blank. According to the results of the latest scientific research, it is known that in the archival documents of the Russian Empire several Alexandrov Blankov appear. Among them were Germans and Jews, by age and profession (doctors) suitable. Information about them is very complicated, and it is very difficult for modern scientists to separate them from each other.

Suppose that Ulyanov-Lenin's grandfather was a German. At that time, this situation is quite typical. Since many Europeans came to RI to make a career and achieve wealth and honors. It is not without reason that when Emperor Alexander 1 asked General Yermolov why he could reward him for his services, he replied that he make him a German. Therefore, nothing interesting in this situation, we do not get.

Hebrew version

If you accept this version, then such a genealogy is full of unfair facts. Consider the life of the grandfather Ulyanov-Lenin in general.

The elder brother Dmitry (Abel) and Alexander (then Israel) were born in the family of a Jew who lived in a remote place. He was not poor, but he did not shy away from neighbors to turn the hay. Relations between the brothers and their father were not taken care of, and they came to the conclusion that it would be better to accept Orthodoxy. And so it began! Their godfathers were: Senator, State Councilor D.O. Baranov and State Councilor, Count AI. Apraksin. Where did they get such influential patrons? This question remains a mystery.

The brothers from the remote area do not stop there. Both get higher education and begin to build a career and acquire families. The elder brother subsequently dies from an outbreak of the cholera epidemic, and Alexander marries for love. His wife belonged to a noble, wealthy, cultural family, the groom's pedigree was important. But still the Jewish Romeo was not rejected, moreover, after the death of the spouse for his second sister from the same family. Career is also developing successfully: he became a state councilor, a hereditary nobleman, the owner of the estate with serfs.

The Jewish version is similar to an adventure novel and is much more interesting, so it would be very unfortunate if it was completely ruled out. Lenin's niece, the daughter of his brother Dmitri, categorically denied such an option of origin, in her family believed that Alexander Dmitrievich was from a merchant's orthodox family.