Name: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Real Name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) Birth: April 22, 1870 Height: 165cm Weight: 72kg Born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire, in 1870, Vladimir Lenin was the second son of Ilya Ulyanov, a successful education official, and Mariya Ulyanova, a teacher. His father was of emancipated serf descent but rose to become a high-ranking education administrator through his exceptional abilities, while his mother was an intellectual who spoke multiple languages. Lenin's ancestry included Kalmyk Mongol and Ashkenazi Jewish bloodlines, though the family was unaware of this for a long time. Later, his sister Anna discovered their Jewish heritage while researching their maternal surname, and Lenin accepted this lineage positively upon learning of it. Furthermore, he had always held Jewish people in high regard as a talented nation. Lenin grew up in an economically stable middle-class home and received a very high level of education by the standards of the time. He developed excellent linguistic skills, learning French and other foreign languages from his mother. Growing up in a social environment where French was common among the aristocracy, he mastered various fields including history, literature, music, and linguistics. Because of this background, Lenin was closer to the educated intellectual class than to the workers or poor peasants; he did not hide his origins and showed a degree of empathy for petty-bourgeois sentiments. The most significant event that changed his life was the execution of his older brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov. His brother was arrested and executed in 1887 for participating in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III, and his father passed away that same year. These events deeply shocked Lenin and served as a catalyst for him to recognize the contradictions within Russian society and the Tsarist system. Subsequently, all his siblings participated in the revolutionary movement, and his mother also actively supported her children's revolutionary activities. In 1887, Lenin entered the Faculty of Law at Kazan Imperial University but was expelled shortly after for participating in student protests. Afterward, he solidified his ideology by intensively reading Marxist books translated by Georgi Plekhanov, the pioneer of Russian Marxism. In 1893, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg, that same year to begin labor organizing and revolutionary work in earnest. His life, rising from a wealthy intellectual family to become a leader of the socialist revolution, is evaluated as a representative case showing that many revolutionaries of that era came from the bourgeois intelligentsia.