Lenin was shot on August 30, 1918

Vladimir Lenin was shot by Fanya Kaplan that day but he survived! The shooter was from his own political team - the Social Revolutionary party. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in 1870 and was a major driver of socialist / communism movement - he was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887. After he studied law and worked as lawyer in Petrograd he linked to several people around the revolutionary Marxist circles and got active - more on his life and achievements in a different post. Lenin died in 1924 and his body was embalmed and placed in a mausoleum near the Moscow Kremlin.