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Konstantinovna Krupskaya, (born Feb. 14 [Feb. 26, New Style],
1869, St. Petersburg, Russia—died Feb. 27, 1939, Moscow, Russia,
U.S.S.R.), revolutionary who became the wife of Vladimir I.
Lenin, played a central role in the Bolshevik (later Communist)
Party, and was a prominent member of the Soviet educational
bureaucracy. A Marxist activist in St. Petersburg in the early
1890s, Krupskaya met Lenin about 1894. She was arrested in
August 1896, and, when sentenced in 1898 to three years of
exile, she obtained permission to spend her term with Lenin, who
was then in exile in Shushenskoye, Siberia. On July 10 (July 22,
New Style), 1898, Krupskaya and Lenin were married. In 1901,
after serving her term, Krupskaya joined Lenin (who had finished
his sentence in 1900) in Munich. She subsequently settled with
him in several European cities, returning briefly to Russia in
1905. Despite her ill health she served as Lenin’s personal
secretary as well as editorial