Bsrgvty

How to correctly use newtxtext and newtxmath with luatex

When the direction of a movement changes, is the object at rest at some time?

Was there a clearly identifiable "first computer" to use or demonstrate the use of virtual memory?

Average Two Letters

Differences of latch and lock

What is the exact definition of an Adaptation under Creative Commons?

Stochastic Integral Graph

Completing the square to solve limit problems

Idomatic expression for “less and less”

My mysterious "ruins" wander around and change on their own, what'd be a rational way for them to do that?

Simplify makes Mathematica forget that a matrix is Hermitian

Think of the one you can`t see

What is the maximum number of squares 8 queens and 8 nightriders can attack on a 16x16 board?

What is the lowest level at which a human can beat the 100m world record (or: the presumed human limit) without using magic?

Does any country have free college & open admissions?

Pattern Matching, FullForm and DisplayForm

Should I report a security vulnerability?

Tring to find a comic strip about "What your clothes say about you"

Identify the Eeveelutions

Why is this logic incorrect?

Can arbitrary matrices be decomposed using the Pauli basis?

At what point in time would humans notice a 21st century satellite observing them?

Does knowledge of data structure compromise AES encryption?

How can kinetic energy increase during a collision?

Did Vladimir Lenin have a cat?

Interaction between Ataturk and LeninDid Napoleon ever say «On s'engage et puis… on voit»?Connection between U.S. entry into WW1 and Germans sending Lenin back to RussiaWhat evidence is there that Lenin died because he was poisoned?Did Russia and Lenin benefit from the Treaty of Versailles?Why didn't Lenin improve life in Russian villiages before his death?Did Lenin precisely say “Trust is good, control is better”?When Lenin met Mussolini, what was Mussolini's impression of Lenin?

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty
margin-bottom:0;

.everyonelovesstackoverflowposition:absolute;height:1px;width:1px;opacity:0;top:0;left:0;pointer-events:none;

30

2

According to Wikipedia:

He [Lenin] was... fond of pets, in particular cats.

So did Lenin, at some point, have a cat? I have seen some pictures of him holding cats, but I guess they could just be him holding someone else's cat (for popularity points).

lenin

share|improve this question

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  93
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The cat belonged to the people.
  
  – Clint Eastwood
  Jul 29 at 16:09
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  10
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @ClintEastwood the cat was Lenin's ruler. As we all know, cats rule the world through their humans.
  
  – jwenting
  Jul 30 at 7:37
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  21
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I know that he only drank coffee. Because all proper tea is theft.
  
  – Richard
  Jul 30 at 12:38
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Richard Coffee is just tea made with ground coffee beans.
  
  – corsiKa
  Aug 1 at 8:27
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  No. Some cats may have had Vladimir Lenin, however.
  
  – WBT
  Aug 2 at 2:58
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 3 more comments

30

2

According to Wikipedia:

He [Lenin] was... fond of pets, in particular cats.

So did Lenin, at some point, have a cat? I have seen some pictures of him holding cats, but I guess they could just be him holding someone else's cat (for popularity points).

lenin

share|improve this question

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  93
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  The cat belonged to the people.
  
  – Clint Eastwood
  Jul 29 at 16:09
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  10
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @ClintEastwood the cat was Lenin's ruler. As we all know, cats rule the world through their humans.
  
  – jwenting
  Jul 30 at 7:37
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  21
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I know that he only drank coffee. Because all proper tea is theft.
  
  – Richard
  Jul 30 at 12:38
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Richard Coffee is just tea made with ground coffee beans.
  
  – corsiKa
  Aug 1 at 8:27
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  No. Some cats may have had Vladimir Lenin, however.
  
  – WBT
  Aug 2 at 2:58
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 3 more comments

According to Wikipedia:

He [Lenin] was... fond of pets, in particular cats.

So did Lenin, at some point, have a cat? I have seen some pictures of him holding cats, but I guess they could just be him holding someone else's cat (for popularity points).

lenin

share|improve this question

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

share|improve this question

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

share|improve this question

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

asked Jul 29 at 15:37

maninthecomputermaninthecomputer

15522 silver badges66 bronze badges

2 Answers
2

active

oldest

votes

33

It appears that Lenin did indeed own several cats over the years.

According to Louis Fischer's The Life of Lenin (the source cited by the Wikipedia article):

He had had a brown cat in Geneva. During her visit to Lenin at Gorky shortly following the August 30, 1918, attempt on his life, Angelica Balabanoff saw two cats in the household. Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist who went to Lenin's Kremlin apartment, noted that the dictator was "fond" of his several cats.

• (p 367)

One reasonably well-known image that you may have seen is this one:

(click to enlarge)

According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, the photograph was taken in 1922 by Lenin's sister "at his residence in the village of Gorki", and so could very well show one of the two cats seen by Angelica Balabanoff in 1918.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 29 at 19:07

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  21
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I think you mean that Lenin was owned by several cats? Your answer seems to have it backwards. My cats told me I may have to downvote you for that! ;)
  
  – Marakai
  Jul 30 at 1:34
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  24
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Non-adopted humans have a hard time understanding the difference. They have to be domesticated by a cat first.
  
  – John Hamilton
  Jul 30 at 5:00
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  11
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Ah, but as the saying goes, in Soviet Russia...
  
  – anaximander
  Jul 31 at 12:45
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

11

Victor Sebestyen's book 'Lenin the Dictator' says that after the Bolsheviks had seized power and Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya were living in a flat in the Kremlin, Lenin, despite his many other responsibilities as a ruthless Communist Dictator, always remembered to feed their cat, which his wife would often forget.

Sebestyen does not say what the cat was called or what colour it was.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 30 at 19:35

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

Your Answer

StackExchange.ready(function()
var channelOptions =
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "324"
;
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
createEditor();
);

else
createEditor();

);

function createEditor()
StackExchange.prepareEditor(
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader:
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"u003ecc by-sa 4.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
,
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
);



);

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function ()
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
);

Sign up using Google

Sign up using Facebook

Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function ()
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fhistory.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f53908%2fdid-vladimir-lenin-have-a-cat%23new-answer', 'question_page');

);

Post as a guest

Name

Email

Required, but never shown

33

It appears that Lenin did indeed own several cats over the years.

According to Louis Fischer's The Life of Lenin (the source cited by the Wikipedia article):

He had had a brown cat in Geneva. During her visit to Lenin at Gorky shortly following the August 30, 1918, attempt on his life, Angelica Balabanoff saw two cats in the household. Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist who went to Lenin's Kremlin apartment, noted that the dictator was "fond" of his several cats.

• (p 367)

One reasonably well-known image that you may have seen is this one:

(click to enlarge)

According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, the photograph was taken in 1922 by Lenin's sister "at his residence in the village of Gorki", and so could very well show one of the two cats seen by Angelica Balabanoff in 1918.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 29 at 19:07

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  21
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I think you mean that Lenin was owned by several cats? Your answer seems to have it backwards. My cats told me I may have to downvote you for that! ;)
  
  – Marakai
  Jul 30 at 1:34
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  24
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Non-adopted humans have a hard time understanding the difference. They have to be domesticated by a cat first.
  
  – John Hamilton
  Jul 30 at 5:00
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  11
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Ah, but as the saying goes, in Soviet Russia...
  
  – anaximander
  Jul 31 at 12:45
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

33

It appears that Lenin did indeed own several cats over the years.

According to Louis Fischer's The Life of Lenin (the source cited by the Wikipedia article):

He had had a brown cat in Geneva. During her visit to Lenin at Gorky shortly following the August 30, 1918, attempt on his life, Angelica Balabanoff saw two cats in the household. Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist who went to Lenin's Kremlin apartment, noted that the dictator was "fond" of his several cats.

• (p 367)

One reasonably well-known image that you may have seen is this one:

(click to enlarge)

According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, the photograph was taken in 1922 by Lenin's sister "at his residence in the village of Gorki", and so could very well show one of the two cats seen by Angelica Balabanoff in 1918.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 29 at 19:07

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

• 
  
  
  

  
  21
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I think you mean that Lenin was owned by several cats? Your answer seems to have it backwards. My cats told me I may have to downvote you for that! ;)
  
  – Marakai
  Jul 30 at 1:34
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  24
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Non-adopted humans have a hard time understanding the difference. They have to be domesticated by a cat first.
  
  – John Hamilton
  Jul 30 at 5:00
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  11
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Marakai Ah, but as the saying goes, in Soviet Russia...
  
  – anaximander
  Jul 31 at 12:45
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

It appears that Lenin did indeed own several cats over the years.

According to Louis Fischer's The Life of Lenin (the source cited by the Wikipedia article):

He had had a brown cat in Geneva. During her visit to Lenin at Gorky shortly following the August 30, 1918, attempt on his life, Angelica Balabanoff saw two cats in the household. Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist who went to Lenin's Kremlin apartment, noted that the dictator was "fond" of his several cats.

• (p 367)

One reasonably well-known image that you may have seen is this one:

(click to enlarge)

According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, the photograph was taken in 1922 by Lenin's sister "at his residence in the village of Gorki", and so could very well show one of the two cats seen by Angelica Balabanoff in 1918.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 29 at 19:07

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 29 at 19:07

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

answered Jul 29 at 15:59

sempaiscuba♦sempaiscuba

64.3k1010 gold badges231231 silver badges300300 bronze badges

11

Victor Sebestyen's book 'Lenin the Dictator' says that after the Bolsheviks had seized power and Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya were living in a flat in the Kremlin, Lenin, despite his many other responsibilities as a ruthless Communist Dictator, always remembered to feed their cat, which his wife would often forget.

Sebestyen does not say what the cat was called or what colour it was.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 30 at 19:35

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

11

Victor Sebestyen's book 'Lenin the Dictator' says that after the Bolsheviks had seized power and Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya were living in a flat in the Kremlin, Lenin, despite his many other responsibilities as a ruthless Communist Dictator, always remembered to feed their cat, which his wife would often forget.

Sebestyen does not say what the cat was called or what colour it was.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 30 at 19:35

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

add a comment
 | 

Victor Sebestyen's book 'Lenin the Dictator' says that after the Bolsheviks had seized power and Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya were living in a flat in the Kremlin, Lenin, despite his many other responsibilities as a ruthless Communist Dictator, always remembered to feed their cat, which his wife would often forget.

Sebestyen does not say what the cat was called or what colour it was.

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 30 at 19:35

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

share|improve this answer

edited Jul 30 at 19:35

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges

answered Jul 30 at 12:22

TimothyTimothy

3,35477 silver badges2323 bronze badges