For You, Madam Lenin

When Vladimir Lenin married Nadezhda Krupskaya, he gained more than a comrade/wife. He gained a mother-in-law less than impressed with the “unemployed” revolutionary. In Siberian exile, in European exile, in Russia, this quarreling threesome shared close—sometimes too close—quarters. Which feat proved harder for Vladimir Lenin: toppling the Romanov dynasty or sharing living quarters with his mother-in-law?