Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (Russian: ????´ ??????´???? ????´???; 31 July [O.S.
19 July] 1831 – 24 January [O.S.
12 January] 1886) was a Russian public figure in the field of public education.
He was the father of revolutionaries Vladimir Lenin (who became a Bolshevik leader and founder of the Soviet Union) and Aleksandr Ulyanov (executed for his attempt to assassinate Emperor Alexander III of Russia in 1886).