Life of Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) Russian Communist Revolutionary, Politician and Political Theorist. Head of Government Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Photo Shows: Painting of painting V.I. Lenin at Razliv illustrated by M. Sokolov. When the reactionary provisional government, frightened of Lenin's enormous influence on the broad masses, issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin went into hiding in a shack on the shore of Lake Razliv, near Petrograd. 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies