5134939263

/. Muzey V. I. Lenina. Oulianovsk. The dining-room whcrc thc family gathered, not only for thcir meals, but to discuss thc materials of thc next issue of thc family magazine

Sttbboinik.

/. La salle h mangcr ou sc rćunissait la familie, non seulement pour les repas, mais aussi pour des discussions ct entretiens au sujet des articles a paraitre dans lc journal familial Soubbotnik.

Windows was wasteland with not a single blade of grass. Around the house were barns, granarics, a well with a sweep. The room which Lenin occupied has been restored in its former appearance—a wooden bed, four home-made chairs and book-shelf.

His next residence was in the ncarby home of Petrova (fig. j)_} a peasant woman. When Lenin lived there with his wife and her mother, the landlady occupied one half of the house and the Ulyanovs the other three rooms. The kitchen had a huge Russian stove and a modest variety of rural kitchen ware. In an adjacent room was a cupboard, a table standing before a boarded divan, and chairs. There Lenin talked with the peasants who often came to him for advice or for legał assistance.

In a corner of the third room stood a smali desk, which was Lenin’s writing-table. During his years of exile here Lenin had written over thirty works.

Leningrad, the mnseum city. Leningrad is, after Moscow, the Soviet Lfnion’s leading industriai, cultural and scientific centre. Lenin’s life and revolutionary activity are indivisibly linked with this city (fig. 4).

The Leningrad branch of the Lenin Central Museum. opened in the Marble Pałace on the bank of the Neva in 1937, exhibits documents, Lenin’s manuscripts and per-sonal belongings.

2. Muzey V. I. Lenina, Oulianovsk. A part of the sitting-room. The open door leads to thc study of Ilya Nikolayevich, Lenin’s father.

2. Un coin du salon. La porte ouverte conduit au cabinet de travail du pćre de Lćninc, Ilia Nikolaćvitch.

214