MOSCOW: Olga Ulyanova, a niece of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin who wrote several books about her uncle and family, has died in Moscow. She was 89.
Ms. Ulyanova was the last known relative of Lenin, who never had any children, according to the government in the Ulyanovsk region, which was named after her family. Ms. Ulyanova, a chemist and writer, died in Moscow on Friday, the government said.
Her uncle, Vladimir Ulyanov, took Lenin as his nom-de-guerre in 1901 while in exile near the Siberian river of Lena. Sixteen years later, Lenin headed the Bolshevik revolution. After he died in 1924, Lenin's embalmed body was placed in a mausoleum on Red Square, where it is open to the public. After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Ms. Ulyanova repeatedly demanded that the body remain there.
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