The New York herald., 1921-01-14
Name Mentioned in Dis
patch Is an Old Pseudonym
of Soviet Premier.
USED IL ON WRITINGS
Dangerous Illness OF Boil
shevik Leader Became
Known Few Days Ago.
LONDON STIRRED BY NEWS
Several Indications Point to
Attempt to Conceal End to
Russian Chief.
LONDON STIRRED BY NEWS

LONDON, JAM 13.--A communication
from Moscow announcing the death OF
Al. Karpoff, member of the Supreme
Economic Council Of Soviet Russia,
quoted in Berlin despatch to the
Exchange Telegraph here, received by
way Of Paris to-day, has aroused con-
siderable comment.
The Supreme Council in Moscow
contains no person named Karpoff,
which is an old pseudonym OF Nikolai
Lenine, the Soviet Premier. Some Of
his publications bear that name.
"Karpoff" is one of the pseudonyms OF
Nikolai Lenine Bolshevist Premier OF
Russia, according to A. J. Sack. head
of the Russian information bureau OF
233 Broadway. Mr.. Sack said last nigh.
that Lenine used this pseudonym ten
or twelve years ago and 1t appeared on
several books and pamphlets by hin"
Mr.. Sack could recall no Bolshevist
official named Karpoff.
On the other hand, the Russian Soviet
bureau here denied that 1t had any
Information that Lenine had ever used
such pseudonym.
News of the death of IN. Karpoff"
followed the announcement by the Jew
fsh News Agency of this city last Mon
day of a despatch from its Moscow
correspondent that Lenine was danger
ously i'll and that three well known
German specialists from Berlin had been
sent for and were on their way to Mos
COW for consultation. The bureau said
its Berlin correspondent had endeavored
to obtain verification of the despatch
-. r1-A In
Berlin. but he refused to either confirm
or deny it.
At least three reported attempts have
been made to kill Lenine since he came
into power in Russia in November,
1917. On September 1. 1918, It was re-
ported that he was dead of wounds from
revolver shots fired by a young woman
OF the intellectual class, who believed
that by killing him she could save her
country. Other attempts were made on
his life in January and in August. 1918.
Since then he has been heavily guarded,
and when he appeared in the streets or
In any public place had been accom-
panied by strong military escorts.
Lenine's name is Vladimir Hitch
Ulianoff. He was born in Simbirsk.
April 10, 1870. Among his numerous
aliases Is Lenine. Hitch. Hin and Tylin.
He is a hereditary noble and the son OF
a one time State councillor. His mother
had a small estate in the government Of
Kazan and after the death OF her hus-
band received a State pension.
His brother Alexandra was put to
death in 1887 for completely in terror
list plot to kill Alexander III. Brought
up in the Orthodox faith, Lenine is one
Of the few genuine Russians TO be found
among the Bolshevist leaders. He was
active in revolutionary circles In Russia
from the time of his boyhood and was
arrested and sent to Siberia in 1895.
Finally he was released and fled from
Russia Later he returned TO Petrograd
and during the first revolution in 1905
edited the New Life, the first Socialist
daily newspaper openly printed in Petro-
grad.
After the failure OF the revolution he
again fled from Russia and lived abroad
Until. with the aid OF Germany, he re-
turned to Russia N 1917 to destroy the
morale OF the Russian troops and to
preach revolution. The history OF the
Brest-Litovsk peace between Russia and
Germany. and how IL was made possible
by the overthrow of the Alexandra
Kerensky Government, is well known 10
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