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Today in History, Feb. 26

By The Moscow Times
Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1918.

145 years ago today, on Feb. 26, 1869, the revolutionary and politician Nadezhda Krupskaya was born. Aged 29, she married Vladimir Ulyanov — later called Lenin — in Siberian exile. Her ideas strongly influenced Soviet education.

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