Another World

POD: In 1852 Vladimir Lenin's father, Ilya Ulyanov moved to France so he could get a job he coveted at Paris University.

Nineteenth Century
June 1865 Ulyanov marries Josephine Maurer in Paris.

September 1868 He becomes a Professor of economics.

April 1870 Josephine gives birth to a son named Vladimir.

July 1870 The Franco-Prussian War begins.

May 1871 France surrender to Prussia and the French Empire collapses.

July 1873 Josephine gives birth to a son named Alexis

September 1876 Vladimir is sent to St. Clement's boarding school in Brittany.

December 1876 Josephine gives birth to a daughter called Maria.

September 1879 Alexis goes to St. Clement's.

June 1881 The Democratically elected French Prime Minister is assassinated in a coup led by Jacques Ferrier and the Radical Revolutionary Alliance.

September 1882 Josephine goes to St. Clement's.

July 1883 Vladimir Ulyanov graduates from St. Clement's and is sent to Harrow School in London.

September 1883 Vladimir meets Robert Foulkes on his first day at Harrow.

January 1884 Vladimir attends a speech by Karl Marx at Hyde Park, which changes his life, and shifts him away from the ideologies of his Conservative father. Vladimir Ulyanov is now a Communist for life.

April 1884 Karl Marx dies in Berlin.

July 1884 He steals Marx's Communist Manifesto from the school library.

12 August 1884 Ilya Ulyanov discovers Vladimir and Alexis reading the Communist Manifesto and promptly kicks them out of the house.

13 August 1884 Vladimir and Alexis leave Paris and begin their long trek to the home of Robert Foulkes (Vladmir's friend from Harrow).

15 August 1884 They change their last names to Lenin, after the River Lena in Russia, where their father's family came from.

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