In a small park where Ulitsa Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya becomes Ulitsa Pavlovskaya is a statue of Vladimir Lenin with an interesting back story. The monument marks the location where on 30 August 1918 the political revolutionary Fanni Kaplan attempted to assassinate Lenin after he had given a speech at a factory. Kaplin, despite allegedly being near-blind, managed to shoot Lenin three times and, although he did not die from his wounds, he never really fully recovered and it was probably the reason for his later health problems. Kaplin was later executed.

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