Lenin’s Niece Dies in Moscow
Friday, 25 March 2011
The niece of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik revolution and founder of the former Soviet Union, died in Moscow on Friday at the age of 89.
Olga Ulyanova was one of Lenin's last known living relatives. The daughter of Lenin's younger brother Dmitry, she was born just two years before the Soviet leader's death in 1924, and grew up in the Kremlin.
A chemist by education, Ulyanova also wrote a number of books about Lenin.
She was a vocal opponent of those who called for Lenin's embalmed body to be removed from his mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
No cause of death was given.
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