Copper wedding rings of V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya.

Copper wedding ring of V.I. Lenin.
Russian Empire, Yenisei province, Minusinsk district, v. Shushenskoye.
Late 19th century.
Copper
Height: 0.5 cm;
Diameter: 2.1cm

Copper wedding ring of N.K. Krupskaya.
Russian Empire, Yenisei province, Minusinsk district, v. Shushenskoye.
Late 19th century.
Copper
Height: 0.5 cm;
Diameter: 2.1cm

The rings were given to the museum by N.K. Krupskaya on April 26, 1936.
From March 1897 to January 1900 V.I. Lenin spent in exile in the village of Shushenskoye. On May 7, 1898, N.K. Krupskaya came to Shushenskoye together with her mother Elizaveta Vasilievna to serve her exile. She was also arrested in connection with the case of the “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class” and the city Ufa was identified as her place of exile. Krupskaya filed a petition with the request to send her to Siberia to her fiancé Vladimir Ulyanov. In a letter he asked her to become his wife. “Wife, so wife,” she replied. The marriage was officially recognized after registration in the church. They had to fulfill this condition – the young were married in a local church on July 10, 1898. The wedding required rings. The exiled Social Democrat Finn Oskar Alexandrovich Engberg made wedding rings of two copper dimes (according to another sources – of an ancient copper arrowhead). Vladimir Ilyich presented him his new book “Development of Capitalism in Russia”