Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov

Who was Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov?

Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin.

As a medical student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he became involved with revolutionary activity and joined the illegal Marxist Rabochiy soyuz. He was first arrested in 1897. The following year he was exiled to Tula, then Podolsk, where was put under police supervision. As his brother's renown grew, he would endure countless arrests. In 1900 he became a correspondent of Iskra. The following year he graduated from the medical school of the University of Tartu.

As a doctor and a Marxist, Ulyanov sought to apply his medical training to the revolutionary struggle. During the Revolution of 1905 he provided medical aid to strikers in Simbirsk. He became a trusted cadre of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party and was a delegate to its 2nd Congress. He served as the representative of the Central Committee in Kiev. His duties carried him throughout Russia and the Ukraine, first to Serpukhov, then to Feodosiya and the Crimea.