Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya (1869 - 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. She married the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in 1898. She was deputy minister (Comissar) of Education in 1929-1939.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская) was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin. Krupskaya was born in Saint Petersburg to an aristocratic family that had descended into poverty, and she developed strong views about improving the lives of the poor.