Aleksandr Ulyanov

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Aleksandr Ulyanov

Aleksandr (Alexander) Ilyich Ulyanov (; 1866 – May 8, 1887) was a Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n revolutionary

Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavour....
and older brother of Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and also known by the pseudonyms V.I. Lenin and N. Lenin, was a Russians revolutionary, a Bolshevik Communism politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the USSR....
.

Life
In 1883, he graduated from the College of Simbirsk with a gold medal and entered Petersburg University, where he majored in Natural Sciences and earned another gold medal for his work in zoology

Zoology

Zoology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of animals. The most common pronunciation of "zoology" is ; however, an alternative pronunciation is ....
. Aleksandr participated in illegal meetings, demonstrations and ran propaganda

Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
activities among students and workers.

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Aleksandr (Alexander) Ilyich Ulyanov (; 1866 – May 8, 1887) was a Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n revolutionary

Revolutionary

Vladimir Lenin

Life

In 1883, he graduated from the College of Simbirsk with a gold medal and entered Petersburg University, where he majored in Natural Sciences and earned another gold medal for his work in zoology

Zoology

Propaganda

Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
faction" of the Narodnaya Volya

Narodnaya Volya

Narodnaya Volya was a Russian terrorist organization, best known for the successful assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia. It created a centralized, well disguised, and most significant organization in a time of diverse liberation movements in Russia....
(People's Will) party. He was one of the authors of its program with Marxism

Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
being one of his obvious influences.

Acknowledging the working class as a "nucleus of the Socialist

Socialism

Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
Party", the party program affirmed the revolutionary intelligentsia

Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them ....
's initiative in fighting with autocracy; terror was seen as a means of struggle.

Assassination attempt and execution

Ulyanov and his comrades began preparing an assassination

Assassination

Assassination is the targeted killing of a public figure. Assassinations may be prompted by ideology, politics, or military reasons. Additionally, assassins may be motivated by contract killing, revenge, or celebrity or may be mental disorder....
attempt on the life of Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III Alexandrovich , also known as Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Tsar of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894....
, but on March 1, 1887, they were arrested. In court, Ulyanov gave a political speech. On May 8, he and his comrades Pakhomiy Andreyushkin

Pakhomiy Andreyushkin

Pakhomiy Ivanovich Adreyushkin , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.In 1886, Andreyushkin enrolled in St.Petersburg University....
, Vasili Generalov

Vasili Generalov

Vasili Denisovich Generalov , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.In 1886, Generalov enrolled in St.Petersburg University and later became a member of the "terrorism Faction" of Narodnaya Volya....
, Vasili Osipanov

Vasili Osipanov

Vasili Stepanovich Osipanov , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.In 1881?1886, Osipanov was a student at the University of Kazan, where he joined the revolutionary movement....
and Petr Shevyrev

Petr Shevyrev

Pyotr Yakovlevich Shevyryov , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.In 1883, Shevyrev enrolled in the University of Kharkov and later transferred to St.Petersburg University....
were sentenced to death and hanged at Shlisselburg

Shlisselburg

Shlisselburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of Saint Petersburg....
. As they had been arrested on March 1, they became known as the Pervomartovtsi

Pervomartovtsi

Pervomartovtsi , Russian revolutionaries, members of Narodnaya Volya, planners and executors of the assassination of Alexander II of Russia and attempted murder of Alexander III of Russia ....
.

Legend has it that the execution of his brother Aleksandr radicalized Lenin and he became more involved in student protests and revolutionary propaganda efforts, though given Lenin's cold response to the execution and their differing sensibilities this is unlikely. When he heard of the execution Lenin calmly replied, "There is another way." Lenin never became involved in a plot to kill the Zar or other high officials. He was not the romantic type, or heroic. While his brother was refusing to ask for clemency, Lenin was taking final examinations and graduating, earning a gold medal.

Legacy

A minor planet

Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid....
2112 Ulyanov

2112 Ulyanov

2112 Ulyanov is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on July 13, 1972 by T. M. Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory....
discovered in 1972 by Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is a Russian-born astronomer.She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered various asteroids....
is named after him.