Musée Lenine
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The Musée Lenine is a museum devoted to Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

, located at 4, rue Marie-Rose, in the XIVe arrondissement
XIVe arrondissement
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 of Paris
Paris
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, France
France
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. The museum is open weekdays; admission is free. (Note: it appears that the museum may have closed in late 2007.)

The museum contains the reconstructed apartment where Russia
Russia
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n communist
Communism
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 Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

, his wife Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. She married the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin in 1898. She was deputy minister of Education in 1929–1939, Doctor of Education....

, and her mother lived from July 1909 to June 1912.

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