Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova

Maria Ulyanova
Мария Ульянова
Maria Ulyanova
Born
Maria Alexandrovna Blank

(1835-03-06)6 March 1835
Died25 July 1916(1916-07-25) (aged 81)
Known forMother of Vladimir Lenin
Spouse
(m. 1863; died 1886)
Children8, including Anna, Aleksandr, Vladimir, Olga, Dmitri and Maria
FatherAlexandr Dmitrievich Blank

Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (Russian: Мария Александровна Ульянова; née Blank; 6 March [O.S. 22 February] 1835 – 25 July [O.S. 12 July] 1916) was the mother of the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, who in 1922 founded the Soviet Union. Well-educated and married to a mathematics-physics teacher, she focused on raising her children.