File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1996/96-11-15.074, message 25


From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:35:13 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: Lenin married in a church?


KARL: Hi Vladimir. Thanks for the information.

VLADIMIR: This was the only legal form of marriage in tsarist Russia. In 1898 Lenin
served his term of exile in the village of Shushenskoe, Krupskaya did her 
time in the city of Ufa. The only way they could live together was to obtain
a permission for marriage from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was 
eventually given to them, with the condition to have an official marriage 
"immediately" upon Krupskaya's arrival to Shusha. 

KARL: Surely as the committed and dedicated marxist that he claimed 
to be he would forgo getting married in a christian church.

It is interesting that his marriage does not seem to have been mentioned either by 
Kruoska in her memoirs nor by Lenin in his collected works. It seems 
that, like many other things, it has been kept quite form any years.

I wonder whether there has been much stuff released from the Soviett archives 
on Lenin since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I would say there is some 
very interesting material to found deep down in those archives 
concerning Lenin. After all what has been constructed
is the Lenin legend, not the real guy.

                                               Karl


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