Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna (1869–1939), Russian revolutionary and educational theorist. She married Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1898) while both were exiled in Siberia, thereafter sharing his life in Europe and after his return (1917) to Russia. An opponent of Stalin, she lost her considerable influence in the Communist party after Lenin's death.

See also: Russian Revolution; Lenin, V.I.