Vladimir Lenin

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

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  Lived here · 1917–1918

  Смольный институт

  Bolshevik headquarters Oct 1917–Mar 1918; Lenin lived and worked here before the move to Moscow.

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  Performed here · 1917

  Aurora

  Aurora’s blank shot on 25 Oct 1917 signaled the assault on the Winter Palace during the October uprising he led.

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  Lived here

  Elizarov Apartment Museum

  He used the apartment as his Petrograd home and a discreet Bolshevik meeting place between April and July 1917.

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  Performed here

  Finland Station

  He arrived from exile and addressed the welcoming crowd outside the station on April 3, 1917.

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  Performed here

  Kirov Plant (Former Putilov Works)

  He addressed a mass meeting of Putilov workers here in May 1917.

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  Performed here

  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.

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  Performed here

  Mikhailovsky Manege

  He delivered a political speech to soldiers of the armored division here on April 15, 1917.

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  Created here

  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.

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  Performed here

  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.

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  Performed here · 1917

  Winter Palace

  October uprising culminated in the storming of the Winter Palace; directed from Smolny.