Aleksandr Ulyanov
Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a
Russian revolutionary and older brother of
Vladimir Lenin.
In 1883, he graduated from the College of
Simbirsk with a gold medal and entered
Petersburg University, where he majored in
Natural Sciences and earning another gold medal for his work in
zoology. Aleksandr participated in illegal meetings, demonstrations and ran
propaganda activities among students and the working class. In 1886, he became a member of the "
terrorist faction" of the Narodnaya Volya party. He was one of the authors of its program with
Marxism being one of his obvious influences.
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Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a
Russian revolutionary and older brother of
Vladimir Lenin.
In 1883, he graduated from the College of
Simbirsk with a gold medal and entered
Petersburg University, where he majored in
Natural Sciences and earning another gold medal for his work in
zoology. Aleksandr participated in illegal meetings, demonstrations and ran
propaganda activities among students and the working class. In 1886, he became a member of the "
terrorist faction" of the Narodnaya Volya party. He was one of the authors of its program with
Marxism being one of his obvious influences.
Acknowledging working class as a "nucleus of the Socialist Party", the party program affirmed the revolutionary intelligentsia's initiative in fighting with autocracy; terror was seen as a means of struggle.
Ulyanov and his comrades began preparing an
assassination attempt on the life of
Alexander III of Russia, but on March 1, 1887, they were arrested. In court, Ulyanov gave a political speech. On May 8, he and his comrades Pakhomiy Andreyushkin, Vasili Generalov, Vasili Osipanov and Petr Shevyrev were sentenced to death and hanged. As they had been arrested on March 1, they became known as the Pervomartovtsi.
The execution of his brother Alexander radicalized Lenin and he became more involved in student protests and revolutionary propaganda efforts.
