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A quote from Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
He first adopted the pseudonym Lenin in December 1901, possibly based on the Siberian River Lena; he often used the fuller pseudonym of N. Lenin, and while the N did not stand for anything, a popular misconception later arose that it represented Nikolai.
So, your reader is half-right, but:
1. It was "N.", not exactly "Nikolai".
2. It was just a pseudonym for articles and pamphlets, he was never addressed as "Nikolai Lenin" in a real life.
P.S. Actually, this fact is not widely-known; everybody who was born in USSR knows he was Ulyanov before, and changed his surname to Lenin afterwards; but barely anybody knows about pseudonym "N. Lenin". For example, I didn't know. I even thought at first that it was mixed up with the name of Nikolai II, his main foe. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
He first adopted the pseudonym Lenin in December 1901, possibly based on the Siberian River Lena; he often used the fuller pseudonym of N. Lenin, and while the N did not stand for anything, a popular misconception later arose that it represented Nikolai.
So, your reader is half-right, but:
1. It was "N.", not exactly "Nikolai".
2. It was just a pseudonym for articles and pamphlets, he was never addressed as "Nikolai Lenin" in a real life.
P.S. Actually, this fact is not widely-known; everybody who was born in USSR knows he was Ulyanov before, and changed his surname to Lenin afterwards; but barely anybody knows about pseudonym "N. Lenin". For example, I didn't know. I even thought at first that it was mixed up with the name of Nikolai II, his main foe. :)
Отредактировано «Skink» 15.06.2025 00:48:23
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