Lenin who is by nationality? Many are interested in delving into the roots of the genealogical tree of the great leader. Who did you think you were? And who was actually? We will try to answer these questions.
Who did Ulyanov-Lenin feel like?
Considering this question, you can look at his profiles, which he filled out at all kinds of official events. Everywhere it is written: Great Russian or Russian, as nationality was called under the Soviet regime. Other Bolsheviks also indicated real nationalities, for example, Trotsky noted that he was Jewish.
Lenin's nationality did not bother him at all, he treated it as a given, as an innate eye color. He considered himself 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" argued that a Russian person is considered to be one who lives, speaks and thinks like a Russian. Such was Lenin. His parents perceived his nationality simply, because everyone spoke and thought in Russian.
Instruction of the Central Committee
After the death of Vladimir Ilyich (Ulyanov-Lenin), his nationality became interesting to the ruling circles, thereforeThe Central Committee gave the task to Anna Ilyinichna - his older sister - to carefully study the materials relating to the family's genealogy. Having received the data, she finds a Jew among the ancestors. Judging by her reaction, this fact struck her very much, which means that the whole family, when Lenin was still alive, did not know about the presence of Jewish blood in the genes.
For everyone, including comrades of interest, strangers and even enemies, Lenin had a Great Russian nationality, as the French ambassador to the Russian Empire wrote about Lenin, that he was born on the Volga in Simbirsk and is a "purebred hare". 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 so?
Father line
Consider the father's line. To whom did Lenin refer? Nationality in the Russian Empire was not indicated in passports, but religion was entered. In the police cases that were brought against the defendant Ulyanov, the nationality appeared as follows: Great Russian. This state of affairs was determined by the fact that in the official documents of the Republic of Ingushetia, the nationality of a citizen was determined by the nationality of the father. Let's trace the mother's line.
Mother line
Who was Lenin on his mother's side? The nationality of her family has been well researched by scholars, her line can be traced far. The national composition of the ancestors along the female line is motley and represents a Russified mixture of Europeans, for example, there are Germans and Swedes in the family. Russians and Jews were dispensed with here, this little world with its customs and traditions was closed to strangers. We won't linger here as wellLet's go further. So, whose features does Lenin acquire? Nationality along the line of the grandmother on the mother's side can be defined as follows: European.
Blank Alexander Dmitrievich
Thus, by the method of elimination, we stumbled upon the alleged main "accused" - this is Blank Alexander Dmitrievich. Before baptism, his name was sonorous - Israel Moishevich Blank. According to the results of the latest scientific research, it is known that several Alexander Blanks appear in the archival documents of the Russian Empire. Among them were Germans and Jews, by age and profession (doctors) suitable. Information about them is very confusing, and it is very difficult for modern scientists to separate them from each other.
Let's assume that Ulyanov-Lenin's grandfather was a German. At that time, this situation was quite typical. Since many Europeans came to the Republic of Ingushetia to make a career and achieve we alth and honors. Not without reason, when Emperor Alexander 1 asked General Yermolov how he could reward him for his merits, he replied that he should make him a German. Therefore, we will not get anything interesting in this situation.
Jewish version
If we accept this version, then such a pedigree is full of extraordinary facts. Consider the life path of grandfather Ulyanov-Lenin as a whole.
The older brother Dmitry (Abel) and Alexander (then still Israel) were born into the family of a Jew who lived in the outback. He was not poor, but he did not disdain to steal hay from his neighbors. The brothers' relationship with their father did not work out, andthey 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 A. I. Apraksin. Where did they get such influential patrons? This question remains a mystery.
The brothers who came from the outback do not stop there. Both get higher education and begin to build careers and start families. The older brother subsequently dies from a cholera outbreak, and Alexander marries for love. His wife belonged to a noble, we althy, cultured family, the pedigree of the groom was given great importance. But still, the Jewish Romeo was not rejected, moreover, after the death of his wife, a second sister from the same family is given for him. His career is also developing successfully: he became a state councilor, a hereditary nobleman, the owner of an estate with serfs.
The Jewish version is like an adventure novel and much more interesting, so it would be a real shame if it was finally eliminated. Lenin's niece, the daughter of his brother Dmitry, categorically denied this option of origin, her family believed that Alexander Dmitrievich was from a merchant Orthodox family.
