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Krupskaya

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[kroop-skuh-yuh] / ˈkrup skə yə /

noun

  1. Nadezhda Konstantinovna 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.


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His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, wanted him to be buried in a conventional grave.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2024

Education today would be unrecognizable to people such as John Dewey and Nadezhda Krupskaya, theorists of learning for the greater good.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2018

Krupskaya, arrested later, was allowed to join him there.

From Time Magazine Archive

While in Shushenskoe, Lenin married a fellow exile, Nadezhda Krupskaya, a thin, hot-eyed girl with carroty hair and many of the strong-minded qualities of the young women in the pages of Chekhov and Turgenev.

From Time Magazine Archive

The letters to his wife, Krupskaya, and references to her before and after marriage, are as impersonally businesslike as all the others.

From Time Magazine Archive