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 --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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