Lenin Museum

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LENIN MUSEUM, operated in 1937-92 (until 1990 the museum was the Leningrad branch of the Central Lenin Museum in Moscow) in the Marble Palace, where by the early 1990s 34 halls showed over 10,000 various exhibits, including authentic personal belongings of Lenin and the Ulyanov family (with the total number of exhibits exceeding 100,000). The museum maintained 11 Lenin memorial museums in Leningrad and Leningrad Region. After its closure the materials were transferred over to Smolny History Memorial Museum. An armoured car, known as Rich Man’s Foe, on top of which Lenin delivered his speech on 3(16).4.1917 in front of Finlyandsky Train Terminal can now be seen in the Museum of Artillery, Engineer Troops and Signal Corps Military History.

References: Музей В. И. Ленина: Путеводитель по залам... Л., 1984; Музей В. И. Ленина: Ленингр. фил. Центр. музея В. И. Ленина: Альбом. Л., 1986.

A. D. Margolis. Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
the Ulyanovs
Музей В. И. Ленина: Путеводитель по залам... Л., 1984
Музей В. И. Ленина: Ленингр. фил. Центр. музея В. И. Ленина: Альбом. Л., 1986 Marble Palace
Smolny, State Museum
Military Historical Museum of the Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps
Finlyandsky Railway Station
1937
1992