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On May 4, 1870, Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born to Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna. On April 16, the Lenin was baptized in the local church of St. Nicholas. His parents were described as “collegiate councilor Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov and his lawful wife Alexandrovna of the Orthodox Faith,” (Clark, 3). Many people believe Lenin to be a harsh and cruel person who was completely responsible for his actions. Others believe that Lenin learned his ways when he was a young child and acted them out when he became a young adult. Lenin gained his distorted image of the human race when he was a young child. Maria Alexandrovna was the daughter of a doctor from a wealthy family in Lubeck, Northern Germany. He inherited the bourgeois background from his mother (Clark, 4). Even from the start of his life full of battles, Lenin started out in high social standards, leaving him to believe the lower classes weren’t equivalent to him. Accurate and complete information about [his] ancestry has been printed pointed out or has been systematically suppressed or over looked [in Russia] because it would reveal that Lenin didn’t come from the people or from