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08 June 2007, 14:29Lenin's great-grandmother burnt at the stake as a witch - an historian
Berlin, June 8, Interfax - German psychologist Gunter Kruse, who in recent years has been engaged in drawing up Lenin's family tree, maintains that one of the world proletariat leader's great-grandmothers was burnt at the stake as a witch.
"I went as far back as the middle ages and discovered one of Lenin's ancestor who lived in the 13th century", Kruse reported after spending several years in archives, drawing up the Western European branch of Lenin's family tree.
According to Kruse, the witch who was burnt at the stake by the Inquisition is the most intriguing member of the Ulyanovs family, though almost no information about her has survived.
Kruse reckoned up about one thousand relatives of Lenin beginning from 1267. He says among Lenin's numerous ancestors are Rev. Hefe, who headed a church community during the Thirty Years' War, as well as merchants and leaders of the Hansa Union, the trade association of North German cities which existed in the 14th-16th centuries during wars against Denmark, NEWSru.com has reported. |
