It was the real name of Vladimir Lenin, who was also known as Nikolai Lenin.
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
Lenin's first name was Vladimir although he was also called Nikolai.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was the real name of the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. He adopted Lenin as his last name. Lenin was not a nickname. He was also referred to as Nikolai Lenin by close associates.
Lenin was the leader of the October Revolution of 1917 (also called the Bolshevik Revolution). As to the February Revolution of 1917, Lenin was living in Switzerland at the time and it was over before he even heard about it.
Vladimir Illyich Ulanov is his real name, Lenin was the name he adopted as an alias or pseudonym in 1901 after spending three years in exile in Siberia.
being a Commissar of the Soviet Union. As to his accomplishment, Lenin was known as the leader of the Bolshevik Party, the organizer of the October Revolution of 1917 and the first premier of Russia and the Soviet Union. He was also a ruthless dictator who imposed his concept of a proper society on Russian people by force. As to his name, he had been known under his birth name as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. In 1901, after 3 years in exile in Siberia in a town on the River Lena, he adopted the pseudonym "Lenin." He was also known as and wrote under the name Nikolai Lenin as well.
Not the real one he has an identical twin with the same name
He's not really Russian, WWE simply stereotypes him as Russian because he's from Ukraine. Vladimir Kozlov's real name is Oleg Prudius. From Kiev, Ukraine.
Dracula was based on a real person, Vlad the Impaler making his first name Vladimir.
St. Vlad was real...
Yes. There is another Vladimir Koslov (real name Oleg Prudius) in WWE, but he is not the same as the guy in the Olympics. There was a Vladimir Koslov from Russia that won gold in the 1988 Winter Olympics in the two man bobsled and bronze in the four man bobsled.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks during the "soviet revolution", although technically it is not called the soviet revolution, but the Russian Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution. The Soviet Union had not come into being until 1922.