Lenin?€™s Life in Pictures

A portrait of Lenin when he was 17 years old taken in 1887.



Vladimir Lenin died on Jan. 21, 1924.



The Moscow Times looks back at the Bolshevik revolutionary's life.

Lenin in make-up during his last underground meeting.

Lenin (R) plays chess with the philosopher Alexander Bogdanov (L) during a visit to writer Maxim Gorky (C) in Capri, Italy. April, 1908.

Lenin, Swedish political activist Ture Nerman and Swedish politician Carl Lindhagen walk past Stockholm's Central Station on April 1917.

Lenin speaks at a meeting in Sverdlov Square in Moscow on May 5, 1920. This photograph was later retouched in order to remove evidence of the presence of revolutionaries Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev, who were standing on the steps of the platform.

Lenin (R) and his eventual successor Joseph Stalin pictured in March 1919.

Lenin, the leader of the Russian Communist Party, in 1920.

Lenin at his desk in the study of his Kremlin residence.

Lenin speaks at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921.

Lenin in 1923 during his sickness in Moscow's Gorki region.