He was the father of revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin, who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union, and Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was executed for his attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III in 1886.
Ia adalah ayah dari revolusioner Vladimir Lenin, yang menjadi pemimpin Bolshevik dan pendiri Uni Soviet, dan Aleksandr Ulyanov, yang dihukum mati karena berupaya membunuh Tsar Alexander III pada 1887.