In the life and work of V. I. Lenin, the Petersburg period was extremely important. In St. Petersburg, Lenin established close ties with the workers and became close to the best and most advanced representatives of the proletariat. During these years Lenin was being formed as the leader of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia; he was the initiator and leader of the great historical process of uniting Marxism with the mass working-class movement; under his leadership, the Russian social-Democrats moved from circle propaganda to mass political agitation .1 This period began on August 31, 1893 (when V. I. Ulyanov moved from Samara to live in Petersburg 2) and ended on February 17, 1897 (when Vladimir Ilyich went into Siberian exile). St. Petersburg was not an unfamiliar city for Vladimir Ilyich: he visited it in 1890, then twice more-in the spring and autumn of 1891, during the external state examinations at the St. Petersburg University. "Vladimir Ilyich used his trips to St. Petersburg to pass exams," Lenin's scientific biography notes, "and to get in touch with the Marxists of the capital, through them to stock up on Marxist literature." 3Little information has been preserved about those years of Lenin's life. Biographical Chronicle " adds only clarifications to what is said in the biography: where (at whose apartment) Vladimir Ilyich met with the St. Petersburg Marxists in 1891, what publications were then received from them by Lenin 4 . Naturally, therefore, everything that complements this information is of great interest. Referring to the well-known book by V. E. Mushtukov and P. E. Nikitin " Lenin lived and worked here. According to the memorable places of Leningrad and its environs" (ed. 5-E. L. 1970), the reader seems to find such data. The book says that during his stay in St. Petersburg for university exams, Lenin first attempted to establish contact with the St. Petersburg workers and visited a workers ' Marxist circle. Further, the authors quote the me ... Читать далее