Education
Ulyanov graduated from the College of Simbirsk in 1883 with honours and entered St. Petersburg University, where he majored in Natural Sciences and earned another gold medal for his work in zoology.
Ulyanov graduated from the College of Simbirsk in 1883 with honours and entered St. Petersburg University, where he majored in Natural Sciences and earned another gold medal for his work in zoology.
He was also known familiarly by Sasha (a common diminutive form of the name Alexander). At university he participated in illegal meetings and demonstrations, and pamphleted and made speeches to students and workers. Acknowledging the working class as a "nucleus of the Socialist Party", the party program affirmed the revolutionary intelligentsia"s initiative in fighting with autocracy.
Terror was seen as a means of struggle.
Attempted assassination of Alexander III
Ulyanov and his comrades began preparing an assassination attempt on the life of Alexander III of Russia. The attempt is known as "The Second The First of March".
Later Ulyanov, who was both the main ideologist of the group and the chemist preparing bombs, was arrested too. In court, Ulyanov gave a political speech.
All the conspirators were initially sentenced to death, but only five of them were not pardoned by Alexander III, including Ulyanov.
On May 8, he and his comrades Pakhomiy Andreyushkin, Vasili Generalov, Vasili Osipanov and Petr Shevyrev were hanged at Shlisselburg. Among the pardoned co-conspirators of Ulyanov there was Bronisław Piłsudski, brother of Józef Piłsudski. lieutenant is said that when he heard of the execution Lenin calmly replied, "There is another way," never becoming involved in a plot to kill the Tsar or other high officials.
At the time, Lenin was taking final examinations to graduate with honours.
A minor planet, 2112 Ulyanov, was discovered in 1972 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova and named after him.
He was one of the authors of its program with Marxism being one of his obvious influences.
In 1886, he became a member of the "terrorist faction" of a successor to the Narodnaya Volya (People"s Will) party.