Politics
Vladimir Lenin

Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Brīvības Street
Brīvības iela is best known as the central street of Riga, stretching over 12 km through the city.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- Смольный институт — Bolshevik headquarters Oct 1917–Mar 1918; Lenin lived and worked here before the move to Moscow.
- Saint Petersburg
- Aurora — Aurora’s blank shot on 25 Oct 1917 signaled the assault on the Winter Palace during the October uprising he led.
- Krakow
- Avenue of Roses and the Former Lenin Monument Site — A monumental statue of Lenin stood here from 1973 until its removal in December 1989.
- Pskov
- Chernov Income House — Lenin rented a room in a pharmacist’s apartment here from March to May 1900 after returning from Siberian exile.
- Saint Petersburg
- Elizarov Apartment Museum — He used the apartment as his Petrograd home and a discreet Bolshevik meeting place between April and July 1917.
- Saint Petersburg
- Finland Station — He arrived from exile and addressed the welcoming crowd outside the station on April 3, 1917.
- Saint Petersburg
- Kirov Plant (Former Putilov Works) — He addressed a mass meeting of Putilov workers here in May 1917.
- Saint Petersburg
- Kschessinska Mansion (Museum of Political History of Russia) — He worked here as a Bolshevik leader and delivered a celebrated balcony speech after returning from exile.
- Vilnius
- Lukiškės Square
- Saint Petersburg
- Mikhailovsky Manege — He delivered a political speech to soldiers of the armored division here on April 15, 1917.
- Saint Petersburg
- Museum of Printing and Former Pravda Editorial Office — He wrote and edited a large body of Pravda articles in these rooms during the spring and early summer of 1917.
- Saint Petersburg
- Tauride Palace — Repeatedly spoke at Tauride Palace in 1917, including the 4 April report “On the Tasks of the Proletariat in this Revolution” (April Theses) to Bolsheviks/Mensheviks.
- Saint Petersburg
- Winter Palace — October uprising culminated in the storming of the Winter Palace; directed from Smolny.
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