Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 42. Supernumber: 152 answers to questions 20/10/2021
It is known that Lenin’s father’s salary was 73.5 rubles per month. How did he support a family with an unemployed wife and 8 children?
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— Such a salary is a collegiate adviser Ilya Ulyanov received in 1870, explains Candidate of Historical Sciences Alexander Bayramov. — Then the couple had three children. Over the years, the family grew. But at the same time Ilya Nikolaevich’s promotion was going on, his salary was growing. Already in 1877, he was awarded the rank of a full state councilor (which correspondingly belonged to a major general in the army) with a salary of 350 rubles per month. In addition, in 1880 Ilya Ulyanov received the right to a pension; the term of his immaculate service exceeded 25 years, and now he was entitled to an additional 1 thousand rubles per year.
His wife Maria Alexandrovna, nee Blank, really didn’t work. But just in the year of the birth of Volodya, the future Lenin , her father died, who inherited an estate with land and a mill that brought income. Maria Alexandrovna’s share was 200 rubles per year.