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O n Aug. 30, 1918, Fanny Kaplan, a 28-year-old member of Russia’s Socialist Revolutionary Party, brandished a pistol at that day’s guest to the Mikhelson factory in Moscow. As its workforce...

Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin. Several attempts are known to have been made on Vladimir Lenin 's life. The most famous of them was committed on August 30, 1918, by the Socialist Revolutionary Party member Fanny Kaplan, as a result of which Lenin was seriously wounded.

It was a 28-year-old Fanny Kaplan, a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries (SR). She was taken into custody and made the following statement: “My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot Lenin.

The Jewish-born political revolutionary Fanny Kaplan was shot at the age of 28 for an attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin. She approached the Leader near a Moscow factory and fired three shots at him. One passed through Lenin's coat, the other two hit him in the left shoulder and jaw.

“My name is Fanny Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own”. These words can be heard in recordings made by the Cheka, the Soviet secret service, on the attempted murder of the politician on 30 August 1918, which largely contributed to the outbreak of the civil war. In My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan [+

Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident. She was arrested for the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin and was executed by the Cheka in 1918.

Fanya Kaplan (1890-1918) was a young Ukrainian-born radical aligned with the Socialist-Revolutionaries. She is best known for her failed attempt to murder Vladimir Lenin in August 1918. Kaplan was arrested, tortured and executed by the Cheka. Kaplan was born Feiga Efimovna Roidman in Volhynia, Ukraine, the daughter of a Jewish teacher.

Kaplan, Fanya (1883–1918) Russian revolutionary. Name variations: Fanny Kaplan. Born 1883 into a Jewish peasant family; shot and killed, Sept 3, 1918. Joined the Socialist Revolutionaries; having participated in attempted assassination of a tsarist official in Kiev (1906), was arrested and sentenced to life at hard labor in Siberia; during ...