Mark Yelizarov

Mark Timofeevich Yelizarov (Russian: Марк Тимофеевич Елизаров; 22 March [O.S.

At a village meeting of Bestuzhevka, the headman was allowed to dismiss him from the peasant class, which allowed a native of a peasant family to enter the physics and mathematics faculty of St. Petersburg University, from which Yelizarov graduated in 1886.

In 1905, in St. Petersburg, he was a member of the organization bureau of the 1st All-Russian Railway Congress and headed the Uzlov strike committee for which he was arrested and exiled for three years again in Syzran under police surveillance.

[1] In 1906, he moved back to Samara and joined the local RSDLP committee and worked as a journalist for newspapers, however he was not involved in revolutionary activities anymore.

[3] Yelizarov married Anna Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Vladimir Lenin's older sister in 1899.

Yelizarov's grave on Literatorskie Mostki in Volkovo Cemeter, St. Petersburg
Vladimir Lenin and Anna Yelizarova at the funeral of Mark Elizarov at the Volkovo cemetery.