leaders of the St.Petersburg group of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working class
(Leninin the centre.)
Ulyanov worked as an assistant to a barrister in samara and then moved to St. Petersburg where he engagedin revolutionary activities and soon became the acknowledged leader of a small circle of Marxist.
In 1895 Marxists and workers circles in St. Petersburg were united under Lenin is leadership into the
League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Which was the forerunner of the revolutionary
proletarian party of Russia. On the night of December20.1895. Lenin was arrested and after fourteen monthsof imprisonment in solitary confinement was exiled to the Siberian village